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Abouchoff Steel Works, Russian 40-ton Gun, Vienna Exhibition, 398                       .
*Abouchoff Steel Works, Russian 40-ton Gun, Vienna Exhibition, 398
*Accident, A Singular Railway, Padua Train, 118
*Accidents on the United States Railway, 174
*Act of Parliament, According to, 250
*Agricultural Engineers in France, 80
*Agricultural Society of East Belgium, 124
*Air Power, 128
*Albert Bridge, Battersea, Mr. F. W. Bryant, C.E. 62, 68 - Scaffolding and Gangway, 84, 114
*America, Launch of the Steam Yacht, 214
*American Exhibitors at the Vienna Exhibition, 199
*American Opinion on English Patent Reform, 207
*American Railway Progress, 71
*American Rolling-Mill Engines, 51, 71
*Ansell, Mr., Breech-loader, 383, 384
*Appeal for Messrs. Downing's Workmen, 233
*Aronson, Mr. J., Lantern Globes for Street Lamps, 64
*Art of Getting Done, The, 285
*ASSOCIATION OF FOREMEN ENGINEERS AND DRAUGHTSMEN, THE LONDON. 6:--
*- Annual Meeting, 23
*ASSOCIATION OF GAS MANAGERS, THE BRITISH:--
*- Address of the President, Mr. A. Angus Croll, 364
*- Coal Gas as a Fuel, Mr. F. W. Hartley, 365
*- Coal Wasted in Gasworks, Mr. Methven, 365
*- Lost or Unaccounted for Gas, Mr. W. B. Emmerson, 365
*- Substitutes for Coal in the Production of Gas, Mr. Gore, 365
*ASSOCIATION, MANCHESTER STEAM USERS', 174
*- Annual Report, 202
*ASSOCIATION OF MUNICIPAL AND SANITARY ENGINEERS AND SURVEYORS:--
*- Inaugural Meeting, 282
*Association, The Newsvendors', 113
*Atlantic Telegraph Expedition, 372
*Australia, Steam to, 165
*Axle-boxes, Locomotive, 25, 39, 112
*Azoff Coal Company, 214


Accident, A Singular Railway, Padua Train, 118
*Balloons, Navigable, 22, 39
*Barrow-in-Furness, Port of, 113
*Battery, A New, M. Cauderay, 101
*Baxter, Mr., Engine, 51
*Baynton, Mr., Rotary Puddling Furnace, 249
*Belpaire, M. M. A., a 6-Coupled .Passenger Engine, Vienna Exhibition, 367
*Bermondsey Explosion, 7, 38
*Bismarck's Varzin Paper Mills, Prince. 101
*Blake's Stonebreaker and Traction Engine for the Ceylon Railway, 110
*Boat Lowering Apparatus, Mr. B. J. Kerridge, North-fleet Relief Fund Exhibition, 295
*Boat-plugs, 128
*Bohlken's Earth-borers, 80
*Boiler, The "Downtaker," 112
*Boiler Explosion, The Bermondsey, 7, 38
*Boiler Explosion, A Cui ions, 22, 38, 53, 83, 141
*Boiler Explosion, The Wapping, 371
*Boiler Explosions, 397
*Boiler Explosions, Kitchen, 128
*Boiler, Mr. F. Hazeldine's Spiral Tube, 80
*Boiler, Mr. N. F. Suckling's Sectional Steam, 127
*Boilers, Circulation in, 25, 53
*Boilers, Clothing, 184
*Bolivian Railway, The, 320
*Boomerang, An Iron, 56
*Boot-soleing Machine, Mr. H. Kuhlman, 64
*Boulogne Dock Gates, 272
*Brake, North London Railway, Mr. J. Olmstead's Magneto-Electric, 154
*Brakes, Action of, 219
*Brakes, Continuous, 159, 171, 173, 189
*Brakes, Power of, 202
*Breakwater, The Kurrachee, 141
*Breakwaters, Floating, 53
*Breech-loader. Mr. F. Ansell's, 383, 384
*Bremner, Captain, Steering Screw, 110
*Bridge over the Danube Canal at Vienna, 294, 302
*Bridge in Edinburgh, New North, 124
*Bridge over the Neva at St. Petersburg, 365
*Bridge, The Tay, 197, 200, 204, 209, 220
*Bridge over the Tees, at Middlesbrough, Proposed Lifting, Mr. T. E. Laing, C.E., 128, 130
*Brighton Locomotive and Carriage Works, 5-Roof of Workshops, 20, 23
*British Jurors at the Vienna Exhibition, 182
*Broomhall, Mr., Puddler, 279
*Bronze, Ancient, 266
*Bronze, Phosphorised, 171, 191
*Bryant, C.E., Mr. F.W., Scaffolding and Gangway of the Albert Bridge, Battersea, 62, 68, 84, 114


Accidents on the United States Railway, 174
*Canadian Patent Laws, 346
*Cannon, Phosphorised, Bronze for, 132
*Carbon, Manufacture of, 18
*Carriage, Composite, Mr. C. Sacre, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, 266, 267
*Carriages and Rockets at Shoeburyness, Experiments in, 123
*Carriages, Sleeping, North British Company, 92
*Carriages and Wagons, Railway, 179--Table of Working Expenditure and Maintenance, Half-year Ending December, 1871, 187
*Carrington and Plate, Messrs., Fire-grates, 110
*Catechism of the Steam Engine in Chinese, 53
*Causes of the Racing of Engines of Screw Steamers Investigated--Mr. Osborne Reynolds at the Institution of Naval Architects, 295
*Centering and Scaffolding, 47, 62, 86, 116, 146
*Chance Brothers, Messrs., Harbour Light, 216
*Chandler and Co., Messrs. J., Compound Lever Ball Valve, 21
*Chaplin and Co., Messrs., Portable Winding Engine for Mining Purposes, 299
*Chatham, Gun-cotton, Experiments at, 389
*Chinese Colliers, 247
*Chronograph, Lc Boulcngc, Major Navcz, 213
*Clarke, R.E., C.B., Colonel Sir A., Appointed as Governor of the Straits Settlements, 349
*Clarke, R.E., C.B., Colonel Sir A., Greenwich Royal Naval College School and Gymnasium, 328, 329, 346, 347, 382
*Clayton, Son and Howlett, Messrs., Peat Condensing, 86, 107, 111, 206
*Cleveland District, 16, 31, 46, 60, 76, 90, 105, 122, 136, 150, 164, 178, 196, 212, 228, 244, 260, 275, 292, 310, 325, 344. 360, 378, 393, 408
*Coal, The Committee on, 303
*Coal Economies, 145, 223, 253
*Coal Explorations in Notts and Lincolnshire, 238
*Coal, Export of, 118
*Coal Famine, The, 99, 115
*Coal Importation of, 131
*Coal in Ireland, 166
*Coal Market, The London, 349
*Coinage, International, 174
*Cole, Mr. J. C., Stone and Ore Crushing Machine, 155
*Compound Engines, 180, 199, 219, 222, 233, 250, 349
*Concrete Chimney at South Docks, Sunderland, 332
*Condensing with Hot Water, 96
*Construction, Ancient, 403
*Converters, Lining, 314
*Co-operation, 238
*Cork Represented at Vienna, 260
*Corliss Engine at the Waterloo Flour Mills, Messrs. Hick and Co., 21, 24
*Coxhead and Miller, Messrs., Regulator Valve, 127, 153
*Cranes, Testing, 206, 219
*Crane, Mr. T. Grosse's Travelling, 295
*Cranes, Travelling, 191
*Crichton and Co., Messrs. W., Engines of the Steam Launch Bujak Dere and General Admiral. 185, 188
*Cropper, Mr. S., Platen Printing Machine, 65
*Crystal Palace District Gas Company, 191
*Crystal Palace, Practical Engineering at the, 7
*Crystal Palace Practical Engineering School, 262


Act of Parliament, According to, 250
*Dangers of Uniformity in Scientific Education, 33
*Danks' Furnace, 156
*Dawson, Mr. W., Safety Valve, 155
*Day and Summer's, Messrs., Engines and Boilers of the SS. Liffey, 234, 236
*Deep Sea Surveying Expedition, 125
*Defective Steam Pipes, 180
*Devastation, The, 237, 354
*Dictionary, Tolhausen's Technological, 315
*Dispute at the International Exhibition, 240
*Dixon, Mr. Piers--Whitby and Middlesbrough Railway, 151, Upgang Viaduct, 158
*Dock Gates, Boulogne Harbour, 272
*Dock Gates, Construction of, 81, 93, 123, 169, 218 271, 345, 389
*Dock Gates, Great Grimsby and Canada Docks, Birkenhead, 169
*Dock Gates at Jarrow and the Surrey Docks, 217
*Docks, Liverpool, Mr. G. F. Lyster, C.E., 117
*Docks, Sunderland, Concrete Chimney at the South, 332
*Dudgeon, Messrs. J. and W., Engines of SS. Ruahiue, 284, 288, 312
*Dungeness, The Lesson from, 70, 85
*Dunkirk, St. Nazaire, and Havre Dock Gates, 94
*Dynamical Terms, Use and Abuse of, 18


Agricultural Engineers in France, 80
*Earth Borers, Bohlken's, 80
*Eastbourne, Gun Cotton Experiments at, 300
*Easton and Anderson's, Messrs., Brake 20-horse Friction--Vienna Exhibition, 373
*Economy in Manufacture of Finished Iron, Important, 125
*Edson's Gauge, 127
*Education, Dangers of Uniformity in Scientific, 33
*Egyptian Railway, 123
*Electro Diapason, M. Mercadier, 388
*Elwell, Mr., Safes, 398
*Engine, Mr. Baxter's, 51
*Engine, M. M. A. Belpaire's 6-coupled Passenger. Vienna Exhibition. 367, 368
*Engine, Messrs. Head and Schernioths, Straw-burning Portable, Messrs. Ransomes, Sims, and Head, 313, 319
*Engine for Metropolitan Traffic, South London Railway, Mr. W. Stroudley's Tank, 34, 40
*Engine for Mining Purposes, Messrs. Chaplin and Co.'s Portable Winding, 299
*Engine, Messrs. Moy and Shill's, Non-radiating, 48, 54, 66, 112
*Engine, M. Nolet's Expansive, 168, 172
*Engine, Messrs. Ruston and Proctor's, Portable, 7
*Engine, 270-Horse Power, Sections of Cylinder and Details of Compound Marine, Messrs. R. Napier and Sons, 383, 384
*Engine, Southern Railway of Austria, Herr G. Sigl's 8-Wheeled Goods, 336
*Engine, The Steam Fire, 174
*Engine, Mr. W Stroudley's 6-Coupled Tank, London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, 125. (See also Supplement)
*Engineering College in Japan, 214
*Engineering Considered as a Source of Profit, 315
*Engineering at the Crystal Palace, Practical, 7
*Engineering, Domestic, 349
*Engineering School, Crystal Palace, Practical, 262
*Engineers, Education of Young Mechanical, 141
*Engineers, Naval, 405
*Engines, American Rolling Mill, 51
*Engines in Australia, Portable, 23
*Engines of the Steam Launches, Bujak Dere and General Admiral, Messrs. W. Crighton and Co., 185, 188
*Engines at Cardiff, Results of the trial of Portable, 231
*Engines Tried at Cardiff, Sizes and Construction of Portable, 230
*Engines, Compound, ISO, 199, 219, 222, 233, 250, 349
*Engines, Compound and Non-compound, 388
*Engines, Compounding Beam, 202
*Engines, Furnace Gas, 69
*Engines of the SS. Gael, 80. (See also Supplement)
*Engines, Mr. F. J. Harker's Double Cylinder Steam Launch, 4
*Engines for the Indian State Railways, Messrs. Hathorn, Davis, and Campbell's, Pumping, 23, 137
*Engines, Mr. J. Mason's Steam Launch 233
*Engines for Metropolitan Traffic, 131
*Engines, Non-Compound Marine, 254
*Engines, Portable, 221
*Engines, Remarks on Binary Vapour, W. J. M. Rankine, C.E., LL.D., F.R.S., 395
*Engines of SS. Ruahine, Messrs. J. and W. Dudgeon, 284, 288, 312
*Engines ? What shall we do with our old Steam, 22, 41, 53, 66, 96
*Ericsson, Captain, Torpedo, 21
*Engine , Erste, Brunner, Gesselschaft, Pumping, 381, 383
*Exhibition, Dispute at the International, 240
*Exhibition, 1873, London International, 18
*Exhibition, The Northfleet Relief Fuad 239
*Exhibition, Opening of The International, 229
*Expanding Tap for Couplings, United States Manufacturing Co., 155
*Expansion of Water in Freezing, 277
*Expenditure, Railway, 145, 185
*Explosions, Coal Pit, 38
*Explosions, Produced by High Notes. 71


Agricultural Society of East Belgium, 124
*Fearnley, Mr. W. G., Gas-making Apparatus, 316
*Fire Detectors, 346
*Fire Engine, Mr. F. Walser's, 317, 318
*Fire Grates, Messrs. Carrington and Plate, 110
*Fire at Messis. J. and G. Rennie's, Blackfriars, 82
*Flax, Pre-Historic Culture of, 244
*Floods, Prevention of, 270
*Flour Mills, Longitudinal Section of Waterloo, Messrs. Whitmore and Binyon, 34, 36, 95, 98--Transverse Section, 50
*Flour Mills, The Waterloo, Mr. Seth Taylor, 21
*Fly-wheel, Bursting of a, Bolton Iron and Steel Works, 18
*Fly-wheels, 155
*Force, mass, iuertia, and momentum, 47
*Fuel Economiser, Mr. R. Mill, 183
*Fuel, Economy of, 171, 184
*Fuel, by Old Steam Engines. Means of Reducing the Consumption of, 77, 91, 107, 142, 153, 184, 245
*Furnace, Mr. Baynton's Rotary Puddling, 249
*Furnace at Summerlee, New Blast, 101
*Furnaces, Hot Air, 22, 38, 53, 66, 96
*Furrell, C.E., Mr. E., Life Saving Raft, 282


Air Power, 128
*Gas Coal Substitutes, 207
*Gas, Latest Novelty in, 85
*Gas Making Apparatus, Mr. W. G. Fearnley, 316
*Gas, Patent, 55
*Gas Producer, Mr. Wright 182
*Gases, Mr J. W. Sparrow's Apparatus for Collecting Blast Furnace Waste, 37
*Gauge, Edson's Recording, 127
*Gauge, A Good Steam, Messrs. Williams, Jones, and Co., 7
*Gauge, Mr. King's Combined Pressure and Vacuum, 126
*Gauge in India, Break of, 219
*Gayer, Mr. E. J., Micro-Spectroscope, 332
*Gilbert, Mr. E.ª Electrical Communication in Trains, 326
*Girders, The Tay Bridge, 237
*Glasgow Subway, Proposed, 67
*Glycerine, on Hydrate of Chloral, Action of, 38?
*Governor, Mr. R. Runquist's Oscillating, 265, 266
*Grasshopper Locomotive, Baltimore Railway, 182
*Great Grimsby and Canada Docks, Birkenhead, 169
*Greenwich Royal Naval College, School, and Gymnasium, Col. Sir A. Clarke, R. E., C.B., 329, 346, 347, 382
*Grosse, Mr. T., Travelling Crane, 295
*Gunboats, New, 101
*Gun Carriage of the Future, The English, 61
*Gun Carriage for Turret Use, The 18-Ton, 333, 349
*Gun Cotton Experiments at Chatham, 389
*Gun Cotton Experiments at Eastbourne, 300
*Gun of the Future, The French, 281
*Guns, Breech-loading, 250
*Guns, British and German Heavy, 205
*Guns, Steel, 92


Albert Bridge, Battersea, Mr. F. W. Bryant, C.E. 62, 68-Scaffolding and Gangway, 84,114
*Hammer at Woolwich Arsenal, Messrs. Wilson's 35-Ton Double-acting Steam, 250, 252
*Harbour Light, Messrs. Chance, Brothers, 216
*Harbours, Our Indian, 337
*Harker, Mr. F. J., Double Cylinder Steam Launch Engines, 4
*Harwood's London Machine Works Co., 156
*Hathorn, Davis, and Campbell. Messrs., Steam Pumping Engine for India State Railways, 137
*Hautchin, M. J., Mixing Moulding Sand, 332
*Hazeldine, Mr. F., Spiral Tube Boiler, 80
*Head and Schernioth, Messrs., Straw-burning Portable Engine, Messrs. Ransomes, Sims, and Head, 313, 319
*Heater, Messrs. Payne's Feed-water, 183
*Heavy Guns at Sea, 69
*Henry, Mr., Spindle Step, 398
*Hicks and Co., Messrs., Corliss Engine at the Waterloo Flour Mills, 21, 24
*Hotspur, Fixed Turret of H.M.S., 37
*Hot Water, Condensing with, 112


America, Launch of the Steam Yacht, 214
*Ilfracombe Beds. Experiments in Smelting Tasmanian Iron Ore from, 116
*INSTITUTE, THE IRON AND STEEL
*- Address of the President, Mr. Lowthian Bell, 264
*- Combustion of Powdered Fuel in Revolving Furnaces, Mr. T. R. Crampton, 277
*- Oxide Dry Bottoms for Mill Furnaces, Mr. T. Greener, 278
*- Rolling Mill Clutches, Mr. Jeremiah Head, 278
*- Utilisation of Blast Furnace Slag, Mr. Charles Wood, 278
*- Wire Rope Tramway, Mr. H. M. Morrison, 278
*INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, 23, 34, 77, 142, 199, 344
*- Annual Dinner, 207
*- Conversazione at South Kensington, 335
*- Cylindrical Foundations in Concrete, Brick, and Stonework, Mr. John Milroy, Assoc. Inst. C.E., 78
*- Mont Cenis Tunnel, Mr. T. Sopwith, jun., M.I.C.E., 191
*- Practice and Results of Irrigation in North India, Colonel W. H. Greathed, C.B., R.E., 52
*- Relative Advantages of the 5-ft. 6-in. Gauge, and of the Metre Gauge for the State Railways of India, Mr. W. T. Thornton, 108
*- Rigi Railway, Dr. W. Pole, F.R.S., M. Inst. C.E., 272
*- Rise and Progress of Steam Locomotion on Common Roads, Mr. John Head, A.I.C.E., 239
*Institution of Engineers, The Cleveland, 229
*Institution of Foremen Engineers, 67
*INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS:--
*- Governors, Mr. F. W. Kitson, C.E.. 279
*- Wenham, Mr. F. H., Heated Air Engine, Mr. Conrad W. Cooke, 279
*- Working and Interlocking Railway Signal and Points, Mr. W. Baines, 71
*INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS, 126, 207
*- Auxiliary Power for Ocean Navigation, Mr. Henry Claughton, 207
*- Causes of the Racing of the Engines of Screw Steamers Investigated Theoretically and by Experiment, Mr. Osborne Reynolds, 295
*- Devastation, Thunderer, Fury, and Peter the Great, Mr. N. Barnaby, 223
*- Overloading of Steamers, Mr. J. Wigham Richardson, 281
*- President's Address, 223
*- Waves in Liquids, Late Professor W. J. Macquorn Rankine, C.E., LL.D., F.R.S., andc, 330
*Institution, The Royal Polytecnnic, 156
*Invention, An Old, 365
*Iron, Coal, and General Trades of Birmingham, andc., 15, 31, 45, 59, 75, 89, 105, 121, 135, 149, 163, 177, 195, 201, 227, 213, 259, 275, 291, 309, 325, 343, 359, 377, 393, 407
*Iron, Important Economy in the Manufacture of Finished, 125
*Iron and Steel, Tensile Strength of American and English, 138
*Irrigation, Italian, 91
*Italian Irrigation, 91


American Exhibitors at the Vienna Exhibition, 199
*Japanese Mint, The, 282
*Jarrow and the Surrey Docks Dock Gates, 217
*Juries at the Vienna Exhibition, 156, 182


American Opinion on English Patent Reform, 207
*Kastenbein, M., Type Composing and Distributing Machine, 262, 263
*Kerridge, Mr. B. J., Boat Lowering Apparatus, North-fleet Relief Fund Exhibition, 295
*Kessler, Herr E., Passenger Locomotive for the Carl- Ludwigsbahn, Vienna Exhibition, 350, 351, 355, 366, 368
*Killaloe, Water-power on the Shannon above, 299
*King's Combined Pressure and Vacuum Gauge, 126
*Krupp Guns, 96
*Kuhlmann, Mr. H., Boot Soleing Machine, 64
*Kutab Pillar, The, 22, 39, 53, 66, 83, 96, 153


American Railway Progress, 71
*Laing, C.E., Mr. T. E., Proposed Lifting Bridge over the Tees at Middlesbrough, 128, 130
*Lamps, Mr. Yates' Safety, 183
*Lantern Shades for Street Lamps, Mr. J. Aronson, 64
*LEADERS :--
*- Alexandra Palace, The, 371
*- Ancient Construction, 403
*- Annual Article, 1873, lo
*- Art of Getting Done, The, 285
*- Ashantee War, The, 320
*- British and German Heavy Guns, 205
*- Circulation in Boilers, 25
*- Coal Economies, 145
*- Coal Famine, The, 99, 115
*- Committee on Coal, The, 303
*- Competition between British and Foreign Shipbuilders, 353
*- Compound and Non-compound Engines, 388
*- Continuous Brakes, 159, 173, 189
*- Contract System, The, 372
*- Co-operation, 238
*- Devastation, The, 237, 354
*- Disposal of Sewage, 319
*- Economisation of Small Coal and Dust, 253
*- End of the Strike, 173
*- Engineer in the Streets, The, 285
*- Furnace Gas Engines, 69
*LEADERS :--
*- Heavy Guns at Sea, 69
*- Importation of Coal, 131
*- Ironclad Ships, 221
*- Iron and Steel Tires. 403
*- Justus Liebig, 253
*- Latest Novelty in Gas, 85
*- Lesson from Dungeness, 70, S5
*- Locomotive Axle Boxes, 25
*- Locomotive Engines for Metropolitan Traffic, 131
*- Non-compound Marine Engines, 251
*- Offensive Use of Torpedoes in Naval Actions, 159
*- Our Indian Harbours, 337
*- Over the Semmering, 333
*- Patent Gas, 55
*- Patent Gas Report, The, 42
*- Portable Engines, 221
*- Prevention of Floods, 270
*- Professional Training, 337
*- Proposed Patent Law Reform, 115
*- Railway Expenditure, 145
*- Railway Routes to India, M. Lesseps' Project, 387
*- Ransome and Co's Straw-burning Locomotive Messrs., 319
*- River Tees, The, 303
*- Strike in South Wales, 41
*- Supply of Nickel, 353
*- Tay Bridge Girders, 237
*- Testing Cranes, 206
*- Trades Unions and Legislation, 55
*- United States Navy, The, 99
*- Vienna Exhibition, 42, 206, 238, 269, 270, 236
*- Wapping Boiler Explosion. The, 371
*- Water Power in Relief of Steam, 189
*- Westinghouse Brake on the Metropolitan District Railway, 100
*- What Shall we do with our Old Steam Engines? 41
*- Wooden Railroads, 26
*La Boulenge Chronograph, Major Navez, 213
*LEGAL INTELLIGENCE :--
*- Binney versus Feldtmann, 48, 348
*- Blake's Patent, Sewing Boots, andc., 39
*- Carr's Patent, Disintegrator, 39
*- Mortar and Concrete, Mr. R. C. Reid, C.E., 316
*- Saxby versus Stennett, 34S
*- Smith versus Bullen, 348
*- Society Edinburgh and Leith Engineers
*Lessner, Herr G. 25-horse Condensing Expansive Engine, Vienna Exhibition, 399, 402, 405
*LETTERS TO THE EDITOR :--
*- "According to Act of Parliament," Tommy Merton, 250
*- Action of Brakes, F. N. T., 219
*- Alexandria Obelisk, T. A. A , 96
*- Alexandria Obelisk, W. A. Wharton, 82
*- Appeal for the Workmen of Messrs. Downing's Floorcloth Factory, J. Abbott, 238
*- Bermondsey Boiler Explosion, H.M.C., 7
*- Bermondsey Boiler Explosion, W., 38
*- Block System of Signalling on Railways, W. H. Clapp, 368
*- Boat Plugs, H. Walker, 129
*- Boiler Economy, W. B. P., 184
*- Break of Gauge in India, Hardy Wells, 219
*- Breechloading Guns, L. H. Broadwell, 250
*- Channel Steamers, A. Alexander, 22
*- Circulation in Boilers, E. Mirchin, 53
*- Clothing Boilers, a Constant Reader, 184
*- Coal Pit Explosions, Robert James, 38
*- Compound Engines, Another Working Engineer 184
*- Compound Engines, Chiaja, 234
*- Compound Engines, H. R., 219
*- Compound Engines, W. McNaught, 234 250
*- Compound Engines, J. Molesworth, 233
*- Compound Engines, Working Engineer, 219
*- Compound Engines, X. Y., 349
*- Compounding Beam Engines, S. C. Harris, 202
*- Condensing with Hot Water, W. R. R., 96, 112
*- Continuous Brakes, W. Chapin, 171
*- Continuous Brakes, F. N. T., 171
*- Corliss Valves, Douglas and Grant, 202
*- Coxhead and Miller's Regulation Valve, Mac., 153
*- Curious Boiler Explosion, William Bishop, 53
*- Curious Boiler Explosion, Horticulturist, 22, 82
*- Curious Boiler Explosion. Inspecting Engineer, 141
*- Curious Boiler Explosion, Metallurgist, 38
*- Depths of Plate Girders, Wm. Donaldson, 22
*- Domestic Engineering, R. C., 349
*- "Downtake" Boiler, Richard Pollit, 112
*- Economy of Fuel, J. Jeavons, 171
*- Education of Young Mechanical Engineers, 141
*- Explosions of Kitchen Boilers, C. L. Riker, 129
*- Fitting Screw Propellers, Robert Griffiths, 382
*- Floating Breakwaters, Herefordshire Incumbent, 53
*- Gun Carriage, The 18-Ton, Stephen Holman, 349
*- Hot Air Furnaces, T. Milnes Favell, C.E., F.G.S., 38, 66
*- Hot Air Furnaces, Andrew Howatson, 53
*- Hot Air Furnaces, W. C. Rawlins, 53, 96
*- Hot Air Furnaces, J. Slater, 53
*- Hot Air Furnaces. Working Engineer, 66
*- Indian Railway, Narrow Gauge, 368, 400
*- Kurachee Breakwater, R. S., 141
*- Kutab Pillar, The, C. W., 82
* -Kutab Pillar, The, David Forbes, 22
*- Kutab Pillar, The, George M. Fraser, 66, 96
*- Kutab Pillar, The, Robert Mallett, 39, 153
*- Kutab Pillar, The, S., 66
*- Kutab Pillar, W. F. G., 53
*- Laws of Combustion in Connection with Hot Air Furnaces, John Downes, 22
*- Lining Converters. W. Yates, 314
*- Locomotive Axle Boxes, John Davis, 39
*- Locomotive Axle Boxes, Chas. H. Westley, 142
*- Locomotive for Steep Gradients, Henry Appleby, 184
*- Locomotives for Steep Gradients, Robert F. Fairlie, 184
*- Locomotives for Steep Gradients, G. Gibson, 171
*- Locomotives for Steep Gradients, J. H. B., 334
*- Locomotives for Steep Gradients, Thomas Midelton 282
*- Locomotives for Steep Gradients, Observer, 250
*- Mechanical Means of Removing the Prostrate Obelisk of Alexandria to England, J. L. Haddan A.I.C.E., 67
*- Midland Railway, The, W. Adams. 368
*- Moy and Shill's Non-radiating Engine,N. P. Burgh 112
*- Navigable Balloons, Thomas Moy, 39
*- Navigable Balloons, X. Y., 22
*- New Lord Chancellor and Patent Law, Edmund Hunt, 38, 53
*- New Magneto-Electric Machine, S. Alfred Varley, 142
*- Nolet Engine, Douglas and Grant, 184
*- Non-Radiating Steam Engine, Moy and Shill, 66
*- Overloading of Steamers, W, Brodie, 314, 349
*- Phosphorised Bronze, G. Montefiore Levi, C.E., 171
*- Power of Brakes, George G. Andre. C.E., 202
*- Pre-Patent Protection, E. K. Dutton, 82
*- Pre-Patent Protection, A Patentee, 53
*- Prevention of Sea Sickness, Lawrence Hargrave, 349
*- Public Works in Turkey, J. Lewis Farley, 7
*- Pumping by Windmills, B. B., 129
*- Railway Expenditure, H. Howells, 185
*- Recoil or Self-Acting Loader for Armstrong or Heavy Guns in Forts or Ships, John W. Mason, 233
*- Reducing Fuel in Old Engines, James Sutcliffe, 184
*- Reducing Fuel in Old Engines, W. W. S., 142
*- Ruston and Proctor's Portable Engine, S. C. Harris, 7
*- Safety Valves, X., 185
*- Ships' Lines, J. Simeon Barlow, 334
*- Ships' Lines, Edward Jackson, 313
*- Signalling at Sea, W. H. Clapp, A.M.S.T.E., 96
*LETTERS TO THE EDITOR :--
*- Social Engineering Considered as a Source of Profit, W. H. H., 315
*- Steam Packed Pistons, M. Y. R., 250
*- Steam Packed Pistons, Oswald Rose, 282
*- Steam Packed Pistons, T. Simpson, 282
*- Street Tramways, John Page, 334
*- Testing Cranes, J. Fortescue Flannery, 219
*- Tolhausen's Technological Dictionary, A. Tolhausen, Ph.D., 315
*- Tram Plates at Woolwich Arsenal, W. M. Phipson, 53
*- Ventilation of Coal Mines, John Newsland, F.C.S., 153, 250
*- Ventilation of Mines, J. Hacking, 184, 282
*- Wave Propulsion, J. M., 7
*- What shall we do with Our Old Engines ? Coal Economisers, 22, 66
*- What shall we do with Our Old Steam Engines ? Compound, 96
*- What shall we do with Our Old Steam Engines ? J. B., 53
*- What shall we do with Our Old Steam Engines? A. E. Taylor, 53
*- What shall we do.with Our Old Steam Engines? T. G.. 153
*- What shall we do with Our Old Steam Engines? Working Engineer, 153
*Lifeboat, Mr. W. Petersen's Steam, 126
*Lighthouses for Trinity Shoals and Timbalier, Gulf of Mexico,
*Limestone Chalk in County Tyrone, Ireland, 398
*Lisbon, Steam Tramways in, 18
*Lisbon, Steam Tramways, Mr. Trevithick, 232, 233
*LITERATURE :--
*- Bovill Patent, The, W. W. Wynne, 379
*- City of London Directory for 1873, W. H. and L Collingridge, 190
*- Dictionnaire Technologique, andc., M. Louis Tolhausen, 304
*- Elements of Mathematical Drawing, J. F. Heather, M.A., 190
*- Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872, Professor Luigi Palmieri, 137
*- Illustrated Guide and Directory of Manufactures of Great Britain and Ireland, S. Deacon and Co., 190
*- Indian and Colonial Mercantile Directory for 1873, G. Street and Co., 229
*- Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, 70
*- Mineral Surveyor's Guide, William lantern, 138
*- Modern Marine Engineering, N. P. Burgh, 165
*- Natural Philosophy, Elementary Treatise on, A. Privat Deschanel, 138
*- Peat as a Substitute for Coal, Ralph Richardson, 245
*- Railway Map for England and Wales, Price Williams M.I.C.E., 165
*- Society of Engineers, Transactions for 1870, E. and F. N. Spon, 246
*- Statistical Report of the National Association of Iron Manufacturers for 1872, 229
*- Strength of Materials and Structures, John Anderson, C.E., LL.D., F.R.S.E., 190, 304
*- Water Supply of Bombay, Major Tulloch, 379
*- Works in Iron Bridge and Roof Structures, Ewing Matheson, 165
*Loader for Heavy Guns, 233
*Locomotive, Details of Tank, Mr. W. Stroudley, London and Brighton Railway, 140, 186, 191
*Locomotive, The Grasshopper, Baltimore Railway, 182
*Locomotive, Herr E. Kessler's Passenger, Carl-Lud-wigsbahn, Vienna Exhibition, 350, 351, 355, 366, 368
*Locomotives on Roads Bill, 255
*Locomotives for Steep Gradients, 171, 184, 202, 250, 282, 334
*London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, 255
*London and County Bank, Half-yearly Report, 92
*Louvet, M., Scaffolding used in Repairing the Pantheon, Paris, 144,146
*Lundquist, Mr. Erick, Smelting Apparatus 383 Luxuries of Labour, 142
*Lyster, C.E., Mr. G. F., Liverpool Docks, 117


American Rolling-Mill Engines, 51, 71
*Magneto-Electro Machine, 132, 142
*Mallet, Mr.. Producing Oxygen, 64
*Mallet, C.E.. F.R.S., Mr. Robert, On the Thickness Necessary for Conduit Pipes to enable them to Resist the Shock of Suddenly Arrested Water, 327
*Markets, Metal, Oil, Timber, andc. (See last page of every number.)
*Mason, Mr. J., Launch Engines, 233
*Means of Reducing Consumption of Fuel by Old Steam Engines, 77, 91, 107, 142, 153. 184, 245
*Mercadier, M., Electro-Diapason, 388
*Mersey Tunnel Scheme, 382
*Mexico, A Trip through, 132
*Microgoniometer, The. 179
*Micro-Spectroscope, Mr. E. J. Gayer, 332
*Midland Railway, Appointment of Mr. W. Adams, 346, 368
*Military Saddles, 250
*Mill, Mr. R., Fuel Economiser, 183
*Mine Ventilation, 250, 282
*Mines, Ventilation of Coal, 153, 184
*Mint, The Japanese, 282
*Miscellanea, 3, 19, 35, 49, 63, 79, 97, 109, 129, 139, 157, 167, 181, 203, 215, 235, 268, 283, 297, 321, 361, 352, 369, 386, 401
*Mixing Moulding Sand. Mr. Jules Hautchin, 332
*Mortar and Concrete, Mr. Reid, C.E., at the Edinburgh and Leith Engineers Society, 316
*Motion, or Velocity and Acceleration, 33
*Moy and Shill, Messrs., Non-Radiating Steam Engine, 48, 54, 66, 112


Ansell, Mr., Breech-loader, 383, 384
*Napier and Sons, Messrs. R., Sections of Cylindersand Details of Compound Marine Engine, 270-H.P., 383, 348
*Naval Engineers, 405
*Navy, The United States, 99
*Neuberg Steel Works, Styria, 361, 370, 404
*New Gas Company, Prospectus, 71
*Newport Mills Industrial Partnerships, Annual Meeting, 142
*Newsvendors' Benevolent and Provident Institution, 219
*New Zealand, Progress in, 126
*Nickel, The Supply of, 353
*Nolet, M., Expansive Engine, 168, 172, 184
*North fleet Relief Fund Exhibition, 239
*Notes from Lancashire, 32, 45, 60, 75, 89, 105, 121, 135, 150, 163, 178, 195, 211, 228, 243, 259, 275, 291, 309, 325, 343, 359, 377, 394, 408
*Notes and Memoranda, 3, 19, 35, 49, 63, 79, 97, 109, 129, 139, 159, 167, 181, 203, 215, 235, 251, 268, 283, 297, 321, 352, 361, 369, 386, 401
*Notes from Scotland, 16, 32, 46, 60, 75, 90, 106, 121, 136, 149, 164, 178, 196, 211, 243, 260, 276, 292, 310, 326, 344, 359, 377, 394, 408
*Notices to Correspondents, 10, 25, 41, 55, 69, 85, 99, 115, 131, 145, 158, 173, 189, 205, 221, 237, 253, 269, 285, 303, 319, 337, 353, 371, 387, 403


Appeal for Messrs. Downing’s Workmen, 233
*Obelisk of Alexandria, Mechanical Means of Removing, 67, 83, 96
*OBITUARY
*- Barrett, Mr. Alfred. 6
*- Condres, Louis de, 86
*- Greenwood. Mr. Thomas, 113
*- Jones, Dr. H. Bence, 251
*- Liebig, Baron Justus, 253
*- Rankine Professor W. J. Macquorn, Notice in the Journal of the Franklin Institute, 282
*- Thomson, Mr R. W., 156
*- Tite, Sir William, 255
*Olmstead, Mr. J., Magneto-Electric Brake North London Railway, 154
*Opening of the International Exhibition, 229
*Overloading of Steamers, Mr. J. W. Richardson at the Institution of Naval Architects, 281
*Oxford Main Drainage, 142
*Oxygen, Mr. Mallet's Method of Producing 64
*Oyster, A Patent, 198


Aronson, Mr. J., Lantern Globes for Street Lamps, 64
*Palace, the Alexandra, 371
*Pasteur, M. J. D., Submarine Lamp, 151
*Patent International Congress, 185
*Patent Law and the New Lord Chancellor, 38
*Patent Law in Prussia, 261
*Patent Law Reform, Proposed, 115
*Payne, Messrs., Feed-water Heater, 183
*Peat Condensing, Messrs. Clayton and Howlett, 86, 107, 111, 206
*Peat Works, Mr. F. Healy, 206
*Petersen, Mr. W., Steam Lifeboat, 126
*Petherick and Rock, Messrs., Safety Valves, 380
*Phosphorised Bronze for Cannon, 132
*Piles, Protecting, 174
*Piston, Steam Packet, 250, 282
*Planing Machine, Duplex, Mr. A. Moore Thompson, 182
*Plate Girders, On the Depths of 22
*Port Patrick Cable, The, 7
*Portugal, Steam Tramways in, 166
*"Power Jumper," The, 125
*Pre-Patent Protection, 42, 53, 82
*Printing, Mr. S. Cropper's Platen, 65
*Private Bills, 71, 132. 180, 207
*Private Bills Deposited, 2
*Private Bills, the Estimates, 26
*Propellers, Fitting Screw, 382
*Protection of Inventions at tho Vienna Exhibition, 23
*Prussia, Patent Law in, 261
*Public Works of the Second Empire, 100
*Public Works in Turkey, 7
*Puddler, Mr. Broomhall, 279
*Pulp-making Machinery, Demand for, 113
*Pump, Mr. Schmid's, 216


Art of Getting Done, The, 285
*Raft, Mr. E. Farrell's, C.E., Life Saving, 282
*Railroads, Wooden, 26
*Railway Carriages and Wagons, 179--Table of Working Expenditure, Half-year, December 1871, 187
*Railway, Egyptian, 123
*Railway Matters, 3, 19, 35, 49, 63, 79, 97, 109, 129, 139, 157, 167, 181, 203, 215, 235, 251, 268, 283, 297, 321, 361, 352, 369, 386, 401
*Railway Routes to India, 382, M. Lesseps' Project, 387
*Railways in Central Asia, 348
*Railways in China, 71
*Railways, Indian, 368, 400
*Railways, Narrow Gauge, 214
*Railways in Victoria, 127
*Railways in War, 301
*Rankine, Professor, and the Highland and Agricultural Society, 52
*Rankine C.E., LL.D., F.R.S., W. J. M., Remarks on Binary Vapour Engines, 395
*Rankine, The Late Professor, On Waves in Liquids, 330
*Regulating Marine Engines, Mr. Meriton, 207
*Reid, C.E., Mr. R. C., On Mortar and Concrete, at the Edinburgh and Leith Engineers' Society, 316
*Report, The Patent Gas, 42
*Resistance of Woods to Torsional Strain, 310
*Results of the Trials of Portable Engines at Cardiff, 231
*Reynolds, M.A., Air. Osborne, Causes of the Racing of the Engines of Screw Steamers--Institution of Nava Architects, 295
*Richardson, Air. J. W., On the Overloading of Steamers--Institution of Naval Architects, 281
*Robertson, Air. J., Rolling Fluid Steel, 2, 4
*Robey and Co., Messrs., 8-Horse Power Horizontal Engine. Vienna Exhibition, 298
*Rochussen and Daelen, Messrs., Steel, 249
*Rolling Fluid Steel, Air. J. Robertson, 2, 4
*Rolling Stock, Improved Railway, 23
*Routes to Vienna, 287
*Ruahine and Liffey, Engines and Boilers, Messrs. Day and Summers, 234, 236
*Runquist, Mr. R., Oscillating Governor, 265, 266
*Russian Ministry of Marine, 296


Association of Foremen Engineers and Draughtsmen, The London. 6:— Annual Meeting, 23
*Sacre, Air. C., Composite Carriage, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, 266, 267
*Saddles, Military, 250
*Safes, Mr. Elwell's, 398
*Safety Valve Competition for £100, 247
*St. Gothard Railway, Tho, 65, 94, 168
*Sale of Wood Working Machinery, Burdett-road, Limehouse, 146
*Samal and Berouson, MM., Bleaching, 71
*Scaffolding used in Repairing the Paris Pantheon, M. Louvet, 144, 146
*Schmid, Mr., Pumps, 216
*Science in Japan, Progress of, 377
*Sea Sickness, Prevention of, 349
*Semmering, Over the, 338
*Sewage, Disposal of, 319
*Sewing Machine for Heavy Work, Wheeler, Wilson, and Co., 80
*Shaw's Tuyere, for Smiths' Hearths, Messrs. Crowley and Co., Makers, 110
*Sheet Iron on Railways, 380
*Sheffield District, 16, 31, 46, 60, 76, 90, 106, 122, 135, 150, 164, 178, 196, 212, 228, 244, 259, 276, 292, 310, 326, 360. 378, 394, 408
*Shipbuilders' Competition between British and Foreign, 353
*Ship Canal, Proposed--India and Ceylon, 377
*Shipping Trade, 151
*Ships, Ironclad, 221
*Ships' Lines, 313, 334
*Ships, Wooden, 156
*Shoeburyness, Experiments on Carriages and Rockets, 123
*Sicilian Resources, 127
*Siebe, Gorman, and Christy's, Ship Raising Steamer, 101
*Siemens, Air. C. W., Steel Process, 185
*Signalling Apparatus, as Fitted to the Royal Train, London and North-Western Railway, Mr. S. A. Varley, 395
*Signalling on Railways--Block System, 368
*Signalling at Sea, 96
*Signalling, Submarine Friction, Dynamometers and Deep Sea Soundings, Sir W. Thomson, On, 174
*Sigi, Herr G., 8-Wheeled Goods Engine, Southern Railway of Austria, 336
*Sizes and Construction of the Portable Steam Engines tried at Cardiff. Messrs. Eastons and Anderson, 230
*Smelting Apparatus. Air. Erick Lundquist, 383
*SOCIETY, THE AGRICULTURAL :--
*- List of Prizes, 349
*Society, Amalgamated Engineers', 207
*SOCIETY OF ARTS :--
*- Gas Lighting by Electricity, Air. W. Lloyd Wise,, C.E., 142
*Society for Buenos Ayres, The Scientific, 372
*Society, Cail and Co., Paris, 6
*SOCIETY, THE CHEMICAL, 185
*- Action of Bromine on Alizarine, W. H. Perkin, F.R.S., 397
*- Action of Hydrochloric Acid on Codeine, Dr. C. R. A. Wright, 156
*- Action of Sodium on Aniline, Dr. H. G. Armstrong, 92
*- Air Bath of Constant Temperature between 100 deg. and 200 deg. C2, H. Springel, 156
*- Anthrapurpurine, Air. W. H. Perkin, 92
*- Aurin, Air. R S. Dale, B.A., and Air. C. Schorlemmer, F.R.S., 128
*- Communication from the Laboratory of the London Institution, Dr. H. G. Armstrong, 224
*- Cymene from Different Sources Optically Considered, Dr. J. H. Gladstone, 397
*- Cymenes from Various Sources, Dr. C. R. A. Wright, 224
*- Decomposition of Tri-Calcic Phosphate by Water, Air. R. Warrington, 397
*- Detection of Ammonia in the Atmosphere, Air. I. H. Snell, 128
*- Determining with Great Exactness the Specific Gravity of Liquids, Dr. H. Sprengel. 224
*- Dioxides of Calcium and Strontium, Sir J. Conway, Bart, M.A., 364
*SOCIETY, THE CHEMICAL :--
*- Estimating Nitric Acid, T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S.E., 156
*- Ethyl Amyl, Mr. Harry Grimshaw, 67
*- Heat Produced by Chemical Action, Dr. Debus, 254
*- Hepbanes from Petroleum, Dr. C. Schorlemmer, F.R.S., 67
*- Influence of Pressure on Fermentation. Part II., Influence of Reduced Pressure on Alcoholic Fermentation, Mr. Horace T. Brown, 397
*- Iodine Nonochloride, Mr. J. B. Hannay, 364
*- Isomerism, Dr. Armstrong, 311
*- Isomerism in the Terpene Family of Hydrocarbons, Dr. C. R. A. Wright, 92
*- Mercury Estimation and Mercury Salts, J. B. Hannay, 156
*- Nature of the Black Deposit in the Copper Zinc Couple, Dr. Gladstone, and G. Tribe, F.C.S., 156
*- Nature and Some Derivatives of Coal Tar Cresol, H. E. Armstrong and C. L. Field, 397
*- New Class of Explosives, Dr. H. Sprengel, 281
*- New Tellurium Mineral, with Notes on a Systematic Mineralogical Nomenclature, J. B. Hannay, 397
*- Note on the Relation among the Atomic Weights, J. A. R. Newlands, 397
*- Notes on Various Chemical Reactions, Mr. Davies, 67
*- Oxidation and Decomposition Products of Morphine Derivatives, E. L. Mayer and C. R. A. Wright, 397
*- Pyrogallate of Lead, and on Lead Salts, Mr. W. H. Deering, 281
*- Reaction of the Acetates upon Lead Salts, Mr. F. Field, F.R.S., 156
*- Researches on the Action of the Copper Zinc Couple on Organic Bodies, Dr. Gladstone and A. Tribe, 198
*- Researches on the Action of the Copper Zinc Couple on Organic Bodies, Iodides of Amyl and Methyl, Dr. Gladstone, andc., and A. Tribe, 224
*- Researches on the Action of the Copper Zinc Couple on Organic Bodies III. on Normal and Isopropyl Iodides, Dr. Gladstone and A. Tribe, 397
*- Solidification of Nitrous Oxide, Mr. T. Wills, 128
*- Steel Process, Dr. C. W. Siemens, F.R.S., 185
*- Sulphur Bromide, Mr. J. B. Hannay, 364
*- Triferrous Phosphide, Mr. R. Schenk, 364
*- Vanadates of Thallium, Mr. Thomas Carnelly, 67
*- Zirconia, Mr. J. B. Hannay, 281
*SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, AMERICAN :--
*- Experiments on the Resistance of Stones to Crushing, C. B. Richards, M.E., 92
*- Pneumatic Foundations, Gen. W. Sovy Smith, 300
*- Pneumatic Piles, Mr. R. Cartwright, C.E.. 301
*- Rail Economy, C. P. Sandberg, C.E., 6, 382
*- Record of Some Experiments Showing the Character and Position of Neutral Axes as Seen by Polarised Light, Louis Nickerson, C.E., 78
*- Retaining Walls, Mr Casinni Constable, 166
*- Rock Drilling, F. Collingwood, C.E., 92
*- Screw Piles for Supporting a 24in. Water Main Across the Providence River, Mr. C. D. Ward, C.E., 301
*- Shaw's Gunpowder Pile-driver, Samuel R. Probasco, C.E., 382
*- Society, Civil and Mechanical Engineers', 368
*- Various Kinds of Condensing Apparatus for Engines, Mr. E. Perrett, 108
*- Visit to the Extension Works of the Great Eastern Railway, 18
*Society, The Cornwall Polytechnic, 298
*Society of East Belgium, The Agricultural, 124
*SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS, 47, 397
*- Charging and Drawing Gas Retorts, Mr. John Somerville, 362
*- Continuous Railway Brakes, Mr. W. H. Fox, C.E., 142, 152
*- Horse Railways and Steam Tramways, Mr. Henry Gore, 246
*- Railway Train Intercommunication, Mr. S. A. Varley, 395
*- Visit to the Albert Bridge, 315
*Society of Engineers, Manchester, 96
*SOCIETY, MANCHESTER SCIENTIFIC AND MECHANICAL 234, 250, 332
*- Steam Jacket, its Advantages and Disadvantages--is it Truly Economical? Mr. A. Hildebrandt, 113
*- Strength of Materials, Especially Considering the Effects of Sudden Fluctuations in the Shape of Structures, Professor Osborne Reynolds, 71
*- Travelling Cranes, Mr. Theodore Grosse, 191
*- Ventilation of Mines, Mr. J. Hecking, 138
*SOCIETY, THE METEOROLOGICAL :--
*- Land and Sea Breezes, Mr. J. K. Laughton, 348
*- Land and Sea Breezes, Rev. L. W. Stow, 348
*SOCIETY, THE ROYAL :--
*- Action of Light on the Electrical Resistance of Silenium, Lieut. Sale, R.E., 335
*- Air Battery, Dr. Gladstone and Mr. Tribe, 254
*- Anatomy and Histology of Land Planarians of Ceylon, Mr. Moseley, 171
*- Bacteria, Mr. H. Charlton Bastian, 171, 280
*- Bakerian Lecture, Earl of Rosse, 254
*- Condensation of a Mixture of Air and Steam upon Cold Surfaces, Mr. Osborne Reynolds, 280
*- Curvature and Orthogonal Surfaces, Professor Cayley, 171
*- Distribution of the Invertebrate in Relation to the Theory of Evolution, Dr. Macdonald, 254
*- Durability and Preservation of Iron Ships, and on Riveted Joints, Sir William Fairbairn, 280
*- Effect of Pressure on the Character of the Spectra of Gases, Messrs. Steam and Lee, 281
*- Employment of Meteorological Statistics in Determining the Course for a Ship whose Sailing Qualities are Known, Mr. Francis Galton, 280
*- Ethyl and Methyl Aniline, Mr. J. Spiller, 171
*- Further Remarks on the Sense of Sight in Birds, Mr. R. J. Lee, 67
*- Heat and Electricity, Mr. F. Guthrie, 171
*- Leaf Arrangement, Dr. Herbert Airy, 171
*- Magnetic Observations in the Britannia and Conway Tubular Iron Bridges, Sir George Biddell Airy, 67
*- Magnetic Survey of Belgium, Rev. S. J. Perry, 171
*- Motion of a Body About a Fixed Point, Mr. E. J. Routh, 254
*- New Formula for a Microscopic Object Glass, Mr. J. H. Wenham, 83
*- New Locality of Amblygonite, and on Montebrasite, M. des Cloiseaux, 171
*- New Method of Viewing the Chromosphere, Messrs. J. N. Lockyer and G. M. Seabroke, 67
*- Note on an Erroneous Extension of Jacobi's Theorem, Mr. J. Todhunter, 83
*- Observations on the Temperature of the Arctic Sea near Spitzbergen, Captain J. C. Wells, R.N., 67
*- Organisation of Certain Fossil Plants of the Coal Measures, Professor W. C. Williamson, 67
*- Osteology of Hyopotamidae, Dr. W. Kowalevsky, 171
*- Periodicity of Rainfall in Connection with the Sun Spot Periodicity, Mr. C. Meldrum, 335
*- Researches in Spectrum Analysis in Connection with the Spectrum of the Sun, Mr. J. N. Lockyer, 335
*- Structure of Striped Muscular Fibre, Mr. Schafer, 254
*- Supersaturated Saline Solutions, Mr. C. Tomlinson, 171
*- Synthesis of Marsh Gas and Formic Acid, and on the Electric Decomposition of Carbonic Oxide, Sir B. C. Brodie, 254
*- Temperature at which Bacteria, andc., and their Supposed Germs are Killed when Immersed in Fluid, or Exposed to Heat in a Moist State, Dr. Bastian, 254
*- Union of Ammonia Nitrate with Ammonia, Dr. E. Divers, 67
*- Vapour Density of Potassium, Mr. J. Dewar and Mr. W. Dittmar, 171
*- Visible Direction, Dr. James Jago, 171
*- Wide Slit Method of Viewing Solar Prominences, Mr. Higgins, 98
*SOCIETY, THE ROYAL MICROSCOPIC :--
*- Crystallisation of Metals by Electricity under the Microscope, Mr. Philip Braham, 216
*SOCIETY OF TELEGRAPH ENGINEERS. 130, 334
*- Address of the President, Mr. Frank Ives Scudamore, 33
*- Block System of Working on Railways, Captain Mallock, 296
*- Block System of Working on Railways, Mr. W. H. Preece, 296
*- Common Source of Error in Measurement of Currents of Short Duration, when Using Galvanometers with Shunts, Mr. Latimer Clark, 83
*- Direct Method of Determining Battery Resistances, Mr. Von Chauvin, 31
*- Earth Currents, Mr. Stout, 201
*- Earth Currents, Mr. G. K. Winter, 201
*- Experiences in India. Mr. Ayrton, 254
*- ImprovedTom of Joule's Tangent Galvanometer, Sir W. Thomson, 34
*- Iron Telegraph Poles, Mr. W. Siemens, 143
*- Lightning and Lightning Conductors, Mr. Graves, 34
*- Measurement of Electrostatic Capacity, Sir W. Thomson, 83
*- Riband Telegraph Poles, Mr. Robert Bristow Lee, 143
*- Telegraph Poles, Lieut. Jekyll. R.E., 143
*- Telegraph Poles, Major Webber, 143
*- Testing Lengths of Highly Insulated Wire, Professor Fleeming Jenkin, F.R.S., 254
*Somerset Dock at Malta, 56
*South Cleveland Ironworks, Limited, 142
*South-Eastern Railway, New Suburban Station, New Cross, 377
*South Kensington Museum, 7, 23, 53, 76, 80, 110, 128, 143, 207, 228, 238, 247, 276, 282, 296, 312, 330, 346, 365, 384, 400
*Sparrow, Mr. J. W., Collecting Blast Furnace Waste Gases, 37
*Special Rules at the Lancashire Collieries, 377
*Spindle Step, Mr. Henry, 398
*Spontaneous Ignition of Oiled Cotton or Silk Waste, 174
*Steam to Australia, 165
*Steamers, Channel, 22
*Steamers, Overloading of, 281, 314, 349
*Steamers to South America, N.w Line of, 372
*Steel, Prize for, Council of the Society of Arts, 92
*Steel Process, Dr. C. W. Siemens, F.R.S., 185
*Steel, Producing Direct from the Ore, Messrs. Rochussen and Daelen, 249
*Steel ? What is, 364, 393
*Steel Works in Styria, The Neuberg, 361, 370, 404
*Steering Screw, Captain Bremner, 110
*Stone Breaker and Traction Engine for the Ceylon Railway, Mr. Blakeís, 110
*Stone and Ore Crushing Machine, Mr. J. C. Cole's, 155
*Streets, The Engineer in the, 285
*Strike, The End of the, 173
*Strike in South Wales, 41, 55
*Stroudley, Mr. W., Six-Coupled Tank Engine, London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, 125. (See also Supplement.)
*Stroudley, Mr. W., Details of Tank Locomotive, London and Brighton Railway, 140, 186, 191
*Stroudley, Mr. W., Tank Engine for Metropolitan Traffic, South London Railway, 34, 40
*Stuffing Boxes, Mr. Watteeu's, Metallic, 216
*Submarine Mine Experiments, Stokes Bay, 263, 298
*Sub-Wealden Exploration, 125
*Suckling, Mr. N. F., Sectional Steam Boiler, 127
*Suez, Construction of a New Port at, 400
*Swedish Iron Rolling Stock and Implement Works, 241
*Swedish Pig Iron, 191
*System, The Contract, 372


Association of Gas Managers, The British
*Tay Bridge, The, 197, 200, 204, 209, 220
*Taylor, Mr. S., Waterloo Flour Mills, 21
*Tees, The River, 303
*Telegraphy, Practical Papers on, 339
*Tensile Strength of American and English Iron and Steel, 138
*Thickness Necessary to be Given to Conduit Pipes to Enable their Walls to Resist the Shock of the Moving Liquid Column when Suddenly Arrested, Mr. Robt. Mallet, C.E., F.R.S., 327
*Thompson, Mr. A. Moore, Duplex Planing Machine, 182
*Thomson, Sir W., On Submarine Signalling, Friction Dynamometers and Deep Sea Soundings, 174
*Thwaites, C.E., Mr. C., Appointment to the Office of City Engineer and Surveyor for Norwich, 143
*Time at the Antipodes, 108
*Tires, Iron and Steel, 403
*Torpedo, Captain Ericsson, 21
*Torpedo Launch, Messrs. Yarrow and Hedley's, Steam, 51
*Torpedoes in Naval Actions, Offensive Use of, 159
*Tracing Paper, 166
*Trade in Sheffield, 380
*Trades Unions and Legislation, 55
*Training, Professional, 387
*Trains, Mr. E. Gilbert's Electrical Communication for, 326
*Tramways of Bahia, Central, 94
*Tramways in Lisbon, Steam, IS
*Tramways at Lisbon, Mr. C. F. Trevithick, 232, 233
*Tramways in Portugal, 166
*Tramways, Street, 334
*Tramways, Street, Mr. H. Gore, at the Society of Engineers, 248
*Trial of Breech-loading Arms at the Springfield Armoury, 2
*Tunnel, Mont Cenis, 174
*Turf Fuel in Holland, Production of, 400
*Turret of H.M.S. Hotspur, Fixed, 37
*Tuyere for Smiths' Hearths, Mrs. Shaw, Messrs, Crowley and Co., Makers, 110
*Type, Composing and Distributing Machine, M. Kastenbein, 262, 263


Address of the President, Mr. A. Angus Croll, 364
*Underground Railways in America, 346
*United States Manufacturing Company, Expanding Tap for Couplings, 155
*Utilising Old Iron, 382


Coal Gas as a Fuel, Mr. F. W. Hartley, 365
*Valve, Messrs. J. Chandler and Co.'s Compound Lever Ball, 21
*Valve, Messrs. Coxhead and Miller's Regulator, 127, 153
*Valve, Mr. W. Dawson's Safety, 155
*Valves, Corliss, 202
*Valves, Messrs. Petherick and Rock's Safety, 380
*Valve, Safety, 185
*Varley, Mr. S. A., Signalling Apparatus, as fitted to the Royal Train, London and North-Western Railway, 395
*Varnish for Labels, 382
*Viaduct on the Whitby, Redcar, and Middlesbrough Railway, 151, 158
*VIENNA EXHIBITION, 42, 238, 269, 270, 286, 293, 311, 345
*- Brake, Messrs. Eastons and Anderson's 20-horse power Friction, 373
*- Building, Cross Section of Nave and Transepts, 17, 26
*- Engine, Herr G. Lessner's, 25-horse power Condensing Expansive, 399, 402, 405
*- Engine, Pumping, Erste Brunner Maschinen Fabriks Gesselschaft, 381, 385
*- Engine, Messrs. Robey and Co.'s, 8 horse-power Horizontal, 289
*- Engines, 293
*- Gun, Russian 40-ton, Abouchoff Steel Works 398
*- Juries, 156, 182
*- Locomotive. Passenger, for the Carl Ludwigsbahn, Herr E. Kessler. 350, 351, 355, 366, 368
*- Map of Routes, 287
*- Protection of Inventions, 23
*- Rotunda of the Building, 287
*Vienna Exhibition and the United States, 34


Coal Wasted in Gasworks, Mr. Methven, 365
*Wales and the Adjoining Counties, 16, 32, 46, 60, 76, 90, 106, 122, 136, 150, 164, 178, 196, 212, 228, 244, 260, 276, 292, 310, 326, 344, 360, 378, 394, 408
*Walser. Mr. F., Fire Engine, 317, 318
*War, The Ashantee, 320
*Water Power on the Shannon at Killaloe, 299
*Water Power in Relief of Steam, 189
*Water Supply, Metropolitan, 199
*Watteeu, Mr., Metallic Stuffing Boxes, 216
*Wave Propulsion, 7
*Waves in Liquids, Late Professor Rankine, 330
*Weight of Railway Iron per Mile, 382
*Westinghouse Brake on the Metropolitan District Railway, 100, 113
*Wheeler and Wilson Company's Sewing Machine for Heavy Work, 80
*Whitby and Middlesbrough Railway, Mr. Dixon's Piers, 151
*Whitmore and Binyon's, Messrs., Longitudinal Section of Waterloo Flour Mills, 34, 36, 95, 98--Transverse Section, 50
*Wigan Colliery Explosion, 365
*Wilson, Messrs., 35-ton Double Acting Steam Hammer at Woolwich Arsenal, 250, 252
*Windmills, Pumping by, 128
*Wood-Working Machinery, Burdett-road, Limehouse, Sale of, 146
*Woolwich Arsenal, Tram Plates at, 53
*Woolwich Infant, Interior of the late, 81
*Work Done. Accumulated Work, or Kinetic Energy, and Pis Viva, 61
*Wright's Gas Producer, 182


Lost or Unaccounted for Gas, Mr. W. B. Emmerson, 365
*Yarrow and Hedley's, Messrs., Steam Torpedo Launch 51
 
*Yates, Mr., Safety Lamp, 183
Substitutes for Coal in the Production of Gas, Mr. Gore, 365
 
Association, Manchester Steam Users’, 174
 
Annual Report, 202
 
Association of Municipal and Sanitary Engineers and Surveyors Inaugural Meeting, 282
 
Association, The News vendors’, 113
 
Atlantic Telegraph Expedition, 372
 
Australia, Steam to, 165
 
Axle-boxes, Locomotive, 25, 39, 112
 
Azof! Coal Company, 214
 
Balloons, Navigable, 22, 39
 
Barrow-in-Furness, Port of, 113
 
Battery, A New, M. Cauderay, 101
 
Baxter, Mr., Engine, 51
 
Baynton, Mr., Rotary Puddling Furnace, 249
 
Bclpaire, M. M. A., a 6-Coupled Passenger Engine, Vienna Exhibition, 367
 
Bermondsey Explosion, 7, 38
 
Bismarck’s Varzin Paper Mills, Prince. 101
 
Blake’s Stonebreaker and Traction Engine for the Ceylon Railway, 110
 
Boat Lowering Apparatus, Mr. B. J. Kerridge, Northfleet Relief Fund Exhibition, 295
 
Boat-plugs. 128
 
Bohlken’s Earth-borers, 80
 
Boiler, The “Downtaker,” 112
 
Boiler Explosion, The Bermondsey, 7, 38
 
Boiler Explosion, A Cui ions, 22 38, 53, 83, 141
 
Boiler Explosion, The Wapping, 371
 
Boiler Explosions, 397
 
Boiler Explosions, Kitchen. 128
 
Boiler, Mr. F. Hazeldine’s Spiral Tube, 80
 
Boiler, Mr. N. F. Suckling’s Sectional Steam, 127
 
Boilers, Circulation in, 25, 53
 
Boilers, Clothing, 184
 
Bolivian Railway, The, 320
 
Boomerang, An Iron, 56
 
Boot-soleing Machine, Mr. H. Kuhlman, 64
 
Boulogne Dock Gates, 272
 
Brake, North London Railway, Mr. J. Olmstead’s Magneto-Electric, 154
 
Brakes, A ction of, 219
 
Brakes, Continuous, 159, 171, 173, 189
 
Brakes, Power of, 202
 
Breakwater, The Kurrachee, 141
 
Breakwaters, Floating, 53
 
Breech-loader. Mr. F. Ansell’s, 383, 3S4
 
Bremner, Captain, Steering Screw, 110
 
Bridge over the Danube Canal at Vienna, 294, 302
 
Bridge in Edinburgh, New North, 124
 
Bridge over the Neva at St. Petersburg, 365
 
Bridge, The Tay, 197, 200, 204, 209, 220
 
Bridge over the Tees, at Middlesbrough, Proposed Lifting, Mr. T. E. Laing, C.E., 128,130
 
Brighton Locomotive and Carriage Works, 5—Roof of Workshops, 20, 23
 
British Jurors at the Vienna Exhibition, 182
 
Broomhall, Mr., Puddler, 279
 
Bronze, Ancient, 266
 
Bronze, Phosphorised, 171, 191
 
Bryant, C.E., Mr. F.W., Scaffolding and Gangway of the Albert Bridge, Battersea, 62,68, 84, 114
 
Canadian Patent Laws, 346
 
Cannon, Phosphorised, Bronze for, 132
 
Carbon, Manufacture of, 18
 
Carriage, Composite, Mr. C. Sacre, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, 266, 267
 
Carriages and Rockets at Shoeburyness, Experiments in, 123
 
Carriages, Sleeping, North British Company, 92
 
Carriages and Wagons, Railway, 179—Table of Working Expenditure and Maintenance, Half-year Ending December, 1871, 187
 
Carrington and Plate, Messrs., Fire-grates, 110
 
Catechism of the Steam Engine in Chinese, 53
 
Causes of the Racing of Engines of Screw Steamers Investigated— Mr. Osborne Reynolds at the Institution of Naval Architects, 295
 
Centering and Scaffolding, 47, 62, 86, 116, 146
 
Chance Brothers, Messrs., Harbour Light, 216
 
Chandler and Co., Messrs. J., Compound Lever Ball Valve, 21
 
Chaplin and Co., Messrs., Portable Winding Engine for Mining Purposes, 299
 
Chatham, Gun-cotton, Experiments at, 389
 
Chinese Colliers, 247
 
Chronograph, Lc Boulcngc, Major Navcz, 213
 
Clarke, R.E., C.B., Colonel Sir A., Appointed as Governor of the Straits Settlements, 349
 
Clarke, R.E., C.B., Colonel Sir A., Greenwich Royal Naval College School and Gymnasium, 328, 329, 346, 347, 382
 
Clayton, Son and Howlett, Messrs., Peat Condensing, 86, 107, 111, 206
 
Cleveland District, 16, 31, 46, 60, 76, 90, 105, 122, 136, 150, 164, 178, 196, 212, 228, 244, 260, 275, 292, 310, 325, 344. 360, 378, 393, 408
 
Coal, The Committee on, 303
 
Coal Economies, 145, 223, 253
 
Coal Explorations in Notts and Lincolnshire, 238
 
Coal, Export of, 118
 
Coal Famine, The, 99, 115
 
Coal Importation of, 131
 
Coal in Ireland, 166
 
Coal Market, The London, 349
 
Coinage, International, 174
 
Cole, Mr. J. C., Stone and Ore Crushing Machine, 155
 
Compound Engines, 180, 199, 219, 222, 233, 250, 349
 
Concrete Chimney at South Docks, Sunderland, 332
 
Condensing with Hot Water, 96
 
Construction, Ancient, 403
 
Converters, Lining, 314
 
Co-operation, 238
 
Cork Represented at Vienna, 260
 
Corliss Engine at the Waterloo Flour Mills, Messrs.
 
Hick and Co., 21, 24
 
Coxhead and Miller, Messrs., Regulator Valve, 127, 153
 
Cranes, Testing, 206, 219
 
Crane, Mr. T. Grosse’s Travelling, 295
 
Cranes, Travelling, 191
 
Crichton and Co., Messrs. W., Engines of the Steam
 
Launch Bujak Dere and General Admiral. 185, 188
 
Cropper, Mr. 8., Platen Printing Machine, 65
 
Crystal Palace District Gas Company, 191
 
Crystal Palace, Practical Engineering at the, 7
 
Crystal Palace Practical Engineering School, 262
 
Dangers of Uniformity in Scientific Education, 33
 
Banks’ Furnace, 156
 
Dawson, Mr. W., Safety Valve, 155
 
Day and Summer’s, Messrs., Engines and Boilers of the
 
SS. Liffey, 234, 236
 
Deep Sea Surveying Expedition, 125
 
Defective Steam Pipes, 180
 
Devastation, The, 237, 354
 
Dictionary, Tolhausen’s Technological, 315
 
Dispute at the International Exhibition, 240
 
Dixon, Mr. Piers—Whitby and Middlesbrough Railway, 151, Upgaug Viaduct, 158
 
Dock Gates, Boulogne Harbour, 272
 
Dock Gates, Construction of, 81, 93, 123, 169, 218 271
 
345, 389                                              ’    ’
 
Dock Gates, Great Grimsby and Canada Docks, Birkenhead, 169
 
Dock Gates at Jarrow and the Surrey Docks, 217
 
Docks, Liverpool, Mr. G. F. Lyster, C.E., 117
 
Sunderlaud» Concrete Chimney at the South,
 
Messrs. J- and W., Engines of SS. Ruahiue,
 
Zo4, 2oo, 312                                          '
 
Dungeness, The Lesson from, 70, 85
 
Dunkirk, St. Nazaire, and Havre Dock Gates, 94
 
Dynamical Terms, Use and Abuse of, IS
 
Earth Borers, Bohlken’s, 80
 
Eastbourne, Gun Cotton Experiments at 300
 
Easton and Anderson’s, Messrs., Brake 20-horse Fric-
 
, Im-
 
tiou—Vienna Exhibition, 373
 
| Economy in Manufacture of Finished Iron portant, 125                                  ’
 
Edson’s Gauge, 127
 
Education, Dangers of Uniformity in Scientific, 33
 
Egyptian Railway, 123
 
Electro Diapason, M. Mercadier, 388
 
Elwell, Mr., Safes, 398
 
Engine, Mr. Baxter’s, 51
 
Engine, M. M. A. Belpaire’s 6-coupled Passeno-ar Vienna Exhibition. 367, 368 P ™sseugei.
 
EpKHeadandSchernioths, Straw-burning Portable, Messrs. Ransomes, Sims, and Head, 313,
 
Engine for Metropolitan Traffic, South London Railway, Mr. W. Stroudley’s Tank, 34 40
 
Messrs. Chaplin and Co.’s Portable Winding, 299
 
Moy aud Shill’s> Non-radiating, 48,
 
Engine, M. Nolet’s Expansive, 168. 172
 
FnSn»’        RUDton au?. I>roctor'K. Portable, 7
 
netai’u kA?0''36 ??!'’ Sectio'13 of Cylinder, and Sons, 38?38TPOUn<i Manue> MeS31'3- R- Napier aud
 
^-Southern Railway of Austria, Herr G. Sigi’s 8-Wheeled Goods, 336                        b
 
Engine, The Steam Fire, 174
 
Engine, Mr. W Stroudley’s 6-Coupled Tank, London ^upplSnQdS°Uth C°aSt Railway’ 125’
 
Engineering College in Japan, 214
 
Engineering Considered as a Source of Profit, 315
 
Engineering at the Crystal Palace, Practical, 7 Engineering, Domestic, 349
 
Engineering School, Crystal Palace, Practical, 262
 
Engineers, Education of Young Mechanical, 141
 
Engineers, Naval, 405
 
Engines, American Rolling Mill, 51
 
Engines in Australia, Portable, 23
 
Engines of the Steam Launches, Bujak Dere and General Admiral, Messrs. W. Crightou and Co., 185 loo                                                          ’    ’
 
E 231ieS afc Cardiff> Results of the trial of Portable,
 
E^!8J?:d afc Cardiff’ SiZ3s and instruction of JL O1 CclDlCj ZoU
 
Engines, Compound, ISO, 199, 219, 222 233. 250 349
 
Engines, Compound and Non-compound, 388 *
 
Engines, Compounding Beam, 202    ’
 
Engines, Furnace Gas, 69
 
Engines of the 88. Gael, 80. (See also Supplement)
 
LllSuncb 4-' F' J‘ Harker’s Uouble Cylinder Steam JUclUUCQ; 4:
 
Engines _ for the Indian State Railways, Messrs.
 
Hathoin, Davis, and Campbell’s, Pumping, 23, 137
 
Engines, Mr. J. Mason’s Steam Launch 233
 
Engines for Metropolitan Traffic, 131
 
Engines. Non-Compound Marine, 254
 
Engines, Portable, 221
 
E^LrcBEr:7'L3Do“FBkT8i5pour’w-j-m-Ran-
Kuahiue,Messre- J- and W. Dudgeon, -juO, UlZ
 
E199in4iS ?'? Y?aofcrShaU We do with our old Steam, “J-, u>, oo, yo
 
Ericsson, Captain, Torpedo, 21
 
E383ie" ErSL°’ Brttnuer’ Cesselschaft, Pumping, 381,
 
Exhibition, Dispute at the International 240
 
Exhibition, 1873, London International 18
 
Exhibition, The Northfleec Relief Fuad 239
 
Exhibition, Opening of The International 229
 
foPcaturi^caoP,1155 UOUPliUg8’ Uuited «^Manu-
 
Expansion of Water in Freezing, 277
 
Expenditure, Railway, 145, 185
 
Explosions, Coal Pit, 38
 
Explosions, Produced by High Notes. 71
 
Fi^i7tecforsW3fo’ Ga3’raakinS Apparatus, 316
 
Fire Engine, Mr. F. Walser’s, 317, 318
 
Fhe Grates, Messrs. Carrington and Plate. 110
 
^|rc at Messis. J. and G. Rennie’s, Blackfriars, 82
 
Hax, Pre-Historic Culture of, 244
 
Floods, Prevention of, 270
 
^Whirnnr’ L°ng'tudiual Section of Waterloo, Messrs.
 
Action 50 ’ d Bluyou’ 84’ 36> 95> 98-Transverse
 
fiv whA                  Mr-Seth Taylor> 21
 
I ly-wheel, Bursting of a, Bolton Iron aud Steel Works,
 
Fly-wheels, 155
 
Eor<Jek mass> inertia, and momentum, 47
 
Fuel Economiser, Mr. R. Mill, 183
 
Fuel, Economy of, 171, 184
 
Fuel, by Old Steam Engines. Means of Reducing the Consumption of, 77, 91, 107, 142, 153, 184, 245 g
 
Furnace, Mr. Baynton’s Rotary Puddling, 249
 
Furnace at Summerlee, New Blast, 101
 
Furnaces, Hot Air, 22, 38, 53, 66, 96
 
Furrell, C.E., Mr. E., Life Saving Raft, 282
 
Gas Coal Substitutes, 207
 
Gas, Latest Novelty in, 85
 
gS, Patent ^ParatUS- Mr- W- G- Fear“^< 316
 
Gas Producer, Mr. Wright 182
 
GStFurLTw^’’SApParatUS f0r C01190ti"g
 
Gauge, Edson’s Recording, 127
 
Co^r4 G°°d Steam> Me88rS' William3> Jones, aud Gauge, Mr. King’a Combined Pressure and Vacuum,
 
Gauge in India, Break of, 219
 
Gayer, Mr. E. J., Micro-Spectroscope, 332
 
Gilbert, Mr. E.» Electrical Communication in Trains, 326
 
Girders, The Tay Bridge, 237
 
Glasgow Subway, Proposed, 67
 
Glycerine, on Hydrate of Chloral, Action of, 38?
 
Governor, Mr. R. Runquist’s Oscillating. 265, 266
 
Grasshopper Locomotive, Baltimore Railway, 182.
 
Great Grimsby and Canada Docks, Birkenhead, 169
 
Greenwich Royal Naval College, School, and Gymnasium, Col. Sir A. Clarke, R. E., C.B., 329, 346, 347, 382
 
Grosse, Mr. T., Travelling Crane, 295
 
Gunboats, New, 101
 
Gun Carriage of the Future, The English, 61
 
Gun Carriage for Turret Use, The 18-Tou, 333, 349
 
Gun Cotton Experiments at Chatham, 389
 
Gun Cotton Experiments at Eastbourne, 300
 
Gun of the Future, The French, 281
 
Guns, Breeoh-loading, 250
 
Guns, British and German Heavy, 205
 
Guns, Steel, 92
 
Hammer at Woolwich Arsenal, Messrs. Wilson’s 35-Ton Double-acting Steam, 250. 252
 
Harbour Light, Messrs. Chance, Brothers, 216
 
Harbours, Our Indian, 337
 
Harker, Mr. F. J., Double Cylinder Steam Launch
 
Engines, 4
 
Harwood’s London Machine Works Co., 156
 
Hathorn, Davis, and Campbell. Messrs., Steam Pumping Engine for India State Railways, 137
 
Hautchin, M. J., Mixing Moulding Sand, 332
 
Hazeldine, Mr. F., Spiral Tube Boiler. 80
 
Head and Scherniotb, Messrs., Straw-burning Portable
 
Engine, Messrs. Ransomes, Sims, and Head, 313, 319
 
Heater, Messrs. Payne’s Feed-water, 183
 
Heavy G uns at Sea, 69
 
Henry, Mr., Spindle Step, 398
 
Hicks and Co., Messrs., Corliss Engine at the Waterloo
 
Flour Mills, 21, 24
 
Hotspur, Fixed Turret of H.M.S., 37
 
Hot Water, Condensing with. 112
 
Ilfracombe Beds. Experiments in Smelting Tasmanian Iron Ore from, 116
 
Institute, The Iron and Steel
 
Address of the President, Mr. Lowthian Bell, 264
 
Combustion of Powdered Fuel in Revolving Furnaces, Mr. T. R. Crampton, 277
 
Oxide Dry Bottoms for Mill Furnaces, Mr. T.
 
Greener, 278
 
Rolling Mill Clutches, Mr. Jeremiah Head, 278
 
Utilisation of Blast Furnace Slag, Mr. Charles Wood, 278
 
Wire Rope Tramway, Mr. H. M. Morrison, 278 Institution of Civil Engineers, 23, 34, 77, 142, 199, 344
 
Annual Dinner, 207
 
Conversazione at South Kensington, 335
 
Cylindrical Foundations in Concrete, Brick, and
 
Stonework, Mr. John Milroy, Assoc. Inst. C.E., 78
 
Mont Cenis Tunnel, Mr. T. Sopwith, jun., M.I.C.E., 191
 
Practice and Results of Irrigation in North India, Colonel W. H. Greathed, QB., R.E., 52
 
Relative Advantages of the 5-ft. 6-in. Gauge, and of the Metre Gauge for the State Railways of India, Mr. W. T. Thornton, 108
 
Rigi Railway, Dr. W. Pole, F.R.S., M. Inst. C.E., 272
 
Rise and Progress of Steam Locomotion on Common Roads, Mr. John Head, A.I.C.E., 239
 
Institution of Engineers, The Cleveland, 229
 
Institution of Foremen Engineers, 67
 
Institution of Mechanical Engineers
 
Governors, Mr. F. W. Kitson, C.E.. 279
 
Wenham, Mr. F. H., Heated Air Engine, Mr. Conrad W. Cooke, 279
 
Working and Interlocking Railway Signal and Points, Mr. W. Baines, 71
 
Institution of Naval Architects, 126, 207
 
Auxiliary Power for Ocean Navigation, Mr. Henry Claughton, 207
 
Causes of the Racing of the Engines of Screw Steamers Investigated Theoretically and by Experiment, Mr. Osborne Reynolds, 295
 
Devastation, Thunderer, Fury, and Peter the Great, Mr. N. Barnaby, 223
 
Overloading of Steamers, Mr. J. Wigham Richardson, 281
 
President’s Address, 223
 
Waves in Liquids, Late Professor W. J. Macquorn
 
Rankiue, C.E., LL.D., F.R.S., &c, 330
 
Institution, The Royal Polytecnnic, 156
 
Invention, An Old, 365
 
Iron, Coal, and General Trades of Birmingham, &c., 15, 31, 45, 59, 75, 89, 105, 121, 135, 149, 163, 177, 195, 201, 227, 213, 259, 275, 291, 309, 325, 343, 359, 377, 393, 407
 
Iron, Important Economy in the Manufacture of Finished, 125
 
Iron and Steel, Tensile Strength of American and
 
English, 138
 
Irrigation, Italian, 91
 
Italian Irrigation, 91
 
Japanese Mint, The, 282
 
Jarrow and the Surrey Docks Dock Gates, 217
 
Juries at the Vienna Exhibition, 156, 182
 
Kastenbein, M., Type Composing and Distributing Machine, 262, 263
 
Kerridge, Mr. B. J., Boat Lowering Apparatus, Northfleet Relief Fund Exhibition, 295
 
Kessler, Herr E., Passenger Locomotive for the Carl-Ludwigsbahn, Vienna Exhibition, 350, 351, 355 366 368                                                    *
 
Killaloe, Water-power on the Shannon above, 299
 
King’s Combined Pressure and Vacuum Gau°-e 126
 
Krupp Guns, 96
 
Kuhlmann, Mr. H., Boot Soleing Machine, 64
 
Ku tab Pillar, The, 22, 39, 53, 66, 83, 96, 153
 
Laing, C.E., Mr. T. E., Proposed Lifting Bridge over the Tees at Middlesbrough, 128, 130
 
Lamps, Mr. Yates’ Safety, 183
 
Lantern Shades for Street Lamps, Mr. J. Aronson, 64
 
Leaders:—
 
Alexandra Palace, The, 371
 
Ancient Construction, 403
 
Annual Article, 1873, lo
 
Art of Getting Done, The, 285
 
Ashantee War, The, 320
 
British and German Heavy Guns, 205
 
Circulation in Boilers. 25
 
Coal Economies, 145
 
Coal Famine, The, 99, 115
 
Committee on Coal, The, 303
 
Competition between British and Foreign Shinbuilders, 353                                    1
 
Compound and Non-compound Engines, 388
 
Continuous Brakes, 159, 173, 189
 
Contract System, The, 372
 
Co-operation, 238
 
Devastation, The, 237, 354
 
Disposal of Sewage, 319
 
Economisation of Small Coal and Dust. 253
 
End of the Strike, 173
 
Engineer in the Streets, The, 285
 
Furnace Gas Engines, 69
 
Leaders :—
 
Heavy Guns at Sea, 69
 
Importation of Coal, 131
 
Ironclad Ships, 221
 
Iron and Steel Tires. 403
 
Justus Liebig, 253
 
Latest Novelty in Gas, 85
 
Lesson from Dungeness, 70, S5
 
Locomotive Axle Boxes, 25
 
Locomotive Engines for Metropolitan Traffic, 131
 
Non-compound Marine Engines, 251
 
Offensive Use of Torpedoes in Naval Actions, 159
 
Our Indian Harbours, 337
 
Over the Semmering, 333
 
Patent Gas, 55
 
Patent Gas Report, The, 42
 
Portable Engines, 221
 
Prevention of Floods, 270
 
Professional Training, 337
 
Proposed Patent Law Reform, 115
 
Railway Expenditure, 145
 
Railway Routes to India, M. Lesseps’ Project, 3S7
 
Ransome and Co’s Straw-burning Locomotive
 
Messrs., 319
 
River Tees, The, 303
 
Strike in South Wales, 41
 
Supply of Nickel, 353
 
Tay Bridge Girders, 237
 
Testing Cranes, 206
 
Trades Unions and Legislation, 55
 
United States Navy, The. 99
 
Vienna Exhibition, 42, 2o6, 238, 269, 270, 236
 
Wapping Boiler Explosion. The, 371
 
Water Power in Relief of Steam, 189
 
Westinghouse Brake on the .Metropolitan District
 
Railway, 100
 
What Shall we do with our Old Steam Engines? 41
 
Wooden Railroads, 26
 
La Boulenge Chronograph, Major Navez, 213
 
Legal Intelligence : —
 
Binney versus Feldtmann, 48, 348
 
Blake’s Patent, Sewing Boots, &c., 39
 
Carr's Patent, Disintegrator, 39
 
Mortar and Concrete, Mr. R. C. Reid, C.E., 316
 
Saxby versus Stennett, 34S
 
Smith versus Bullen, 348
 
Society Edinburgh and Leith Engineers
 
Lessner, Herr G. 25-horse Condensing Expansive
 
Engine, Vienna Exhibition, 399, 402, 405
 
Letters to the Editor : —
 
“According to Act of Parliament,” Tommy Merton.
 
250
 
Action of Brakes, F. N. T., 219
 
Alexandria Obelisk, T. A. A , 96
 
Alexandria Obelisk, W. A. Wharton, 82
 
Appeal for the Workmen of Messrs. Downing’s Floorcloth Factory, J. Abbott, 238
 
Bermondsey Boiler Explosion, H. M‘C., 7 Bermondsey Boiler Explosion, W., 38
 
Block System of Signalling on Railways, W. H.
 
Clapp, 368
 
Boat Plugs, II. Walker, 129
 
Boiler Economy, W. B. P., 184
 
Break of Gauge in India, Hardy Wells, 219
 
Breechloading Guns, L. H. Broadwell, 250
 
Channel Steamers, A. Alexander, 22
 
Circulation in Boilers, E. Mirchin, 53
 
Clothing Boilers, a Constant Reader, 184
 
Coal Pit Explosions, Robert James, 38
 
Compound Engines, Another Working Engineer 184
 
Compound Engines, Chiaja, 234
 
Compound Engines, H. R., 219
 
Compound Engines, W. McNaught, 234 250
 
Compound Engines, J. MoJcsworth, 233
 
Compound Engines, Working Engineer, 219
 
Compound Engines, X. Y., 349
 
Compounding Beam Engines, S. C. Harris, 202 Condensing with Hot Water, W. R. R., 96, 112 Continuous Brakes, W. Chapin, 171
 
Continuous Brakes, F. N. T., 171
 
Corliss Valves, Douglas and Grant, 202
 
Coxhead and Miller’s Regulation Valve, Mac., 153 Curious Boiler Explosion, William Bishop. 53 Curious Boiler Explosion, Horticulturist, 22, 82 Curious Boiler Explosion. Inspecting Engineer, 141 Curious Boiler Explosion, Metallurgist, 38 Depths of Plate Girders, Wm. Donaldson, 22 Domestic Engineering, R. C., 349
 
“ Downtake ” Boiler, Richard Pollit, 112
 
Economy of Fuel, J. Jeavons, 171
 
Education of Young Mechanical Engineers, 141 Explosions of Kitchen Boilers, C. L. Riker, 129 Fitting Screw Propellers, Robert Griffiths, 382 Floating Breakwaters, Herefordshire Incumbent, 53 Gun Carriage, The 18-Ton, Stephen Holman, 349 Hot Air Furnaces, T. Milnes Fa veil, C.E., F.G.S., 38, 66
 
Hot Air Furnaces, Andrew Howatson, 53 Hot Air Furnaces, W. C. Rawlins, 53, 96 Hot Air Furnaces, J. Slater, 53
 
Hot Air Furnaces. Working Engineer, 66
 
Indian Railway, Narrow Gauge, 368, 400
 
Kurachee Breakwater, R. S., 141
 
Kutab Pillar, The, C. W., 82
 
Kutab Pillar, The, David Forbes, 22
 
Kutab Pillar, The, George M. Fraser, 66, 96
 
Kutab Pillar, The, Robert Mallett, 39, 153
 
Kutab Pillar, The, S., 66
 
Kutab Pillar, W. F. G., 53
 
Laws of Combustion in Connection with Hot Air Furnaces, John Downes, 22
 
Lining Converters. W. Yates, 314
 
Locomotive Axle Boxes, John Davis, 39
 
Locomotive Axle Boxes, Chas. H. Westley, 142
 
Locomotive for Steep Gradients, Henry Appleby, 184 Locomotives for Steep Gradients, Robert F. Fairlie, 184
 
Locomotives for Steep Gradients, G. Gibson, 171 Locomotives for Steep Gradients, J. H. B., 334 Locomotives for Steep Gradients, Thomas Midelton 282
 
Locomotives for Steep Gradients, Observer, 250
 
Mechanical Means of Removing the Prostrate Obelisk of Alexandria to England, J. L. Haddan A.I.C.E., 67
 
Midland Railway, The, W. Adams. 368
 
Moy and Shill’s Non-radiating Engine,N. P. Burgh 112
 
Navigable Balloons, Thomas Moy, 39
 
Navigable Balloons, X. Y., 22
 
New Lord Chancellor and Patent Law, Edmund Hunt, 38, 53
 
New Magneto-Electric Machine, S. Alfred Varley, 142 Nolet Engine, Douglas and Grant, 184
 
Non-Radiating Steam Engine, Moy and Shill, 66 Overloading of Steamers, W, Brodie, 314, 349 Phosphorised Bronze, G. Montefiore Levi, C.E., 171 Power of Brakes, George G. Andre. C.E., 202 Pre-Patent Protection, E. K. Dutton, 82
 
Pre-Patent Protection, A Patentee, 53
 
Prevention of Sea Sickness, Lawrence Hargrave, 349 Public Works in Turkey, J. Lewis Farley, 7
 
Pumping by Windmills, B. B., 129
 
Railway Expenditure, H. Howells, 185
 
Recoil or Self-Acting Loader for Armstrong or
 
Heavy Guns in Forts or Ships, John W. Mason, 233 Reducing Fuel in Old Engines, James Sutcliffe, 184 Reducing Fuel in Old Engines, W. W. S., 142 Ruston and Proctor’s Portable Engine, S. C. Harris, 7 Safety Valves, X., 185
 
Ships’ Lines, J. Simeon Barlow, 334 Ships’ Lines, Edward Jackson, 313 Signalling at Sea, W. H. Clapp, A.M.S.T.E., 9G
 
Letters to the Editor:—
 
Social Engineering Considered as a Source of Profit, W. H. H„ 315
 
Steam Packed Pistons, M. Y. R., 250
 
Steam Packed Pistons, Oswald Rose, 282
 
Steam Packed Pistons, T. Simpson, 282
 
Street Tramways, John Page, 334
 
Testing Cranes, J. Fortescue Flannery, 219
 
To^hausen’s Technological Dictionary, A. Tolhausen, Tram Plates at Woolwich Arsenal, W. M. Phipson, 53 Ventilation of Coal Mines, John Newsland, F.C.S., 153, 250
 
Ventilation of Mines, J. Hacking, 184, 282
 
Wave Propulsion, J. M., 7
 
What shall we do with Our Old Engines ? Coal Economisers, 22,66
 
What shall we do with Our Old Steam Engines ? Compound, 96
 
What shall we do with Our Old Steam Engines ? J. B.,53
 
What shall we do with Our Old Steam Engines? A. E. Taylor, 53
 
What shall we do.with Our Old Steam Engines? T. G.. 153
 
What shall we do with Our Old Steam Engines? Working Engineer, 153
 
Lifeboat, Mr. W. Petersen’s Steam, 126
 
Lighthouses for Trinity Shoals and Timbalier, Gulf of M exico,
 
Limestone Chalk in County Tyrone, Ireland, 398
 
Lisbon, Steam Tramways in, 18
 
Lisbon, Steam Tramways, Mr. Trevithick, 232, 233 Literature
 
Bovill Patent, The, W. W. Wynne. 379
 
City of London Directory for 1873, W. II. and L Collingridge. 190
 
Dictionnaire Technologique, &c., M. Louis Tol-hausen, 304
 
Elements of Mathematical Drawing, J. F. Heather, M.A., 190
 
Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872, Professor Luigi Palmieri, 137
 
Illustrated Guide and Directory of Manufactures of Great Britain and Ireland, 8. Deacon and Co., 190
 
Indian and Colonial Mercantile Directory for 1873, G. Street and Co., 229
 
Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, 70
 
Mineral Surveyor’s Guide, William lantern, 138
 
Modern Marine Engineering, N. P. Burgh, 165
 
Natural Philosophy, Elementary Treatise on, A.
 
Privat Deschanel, 138
 
Peat as a Substitute for Coal, Ralph Richardson, 245
 
Railway Map for England and Wales, Price Williams M.I.C.E., 165
 
Society of Engineers, Transactions for 1870, E. and F. N. Spon, 246
 
Statistical Report of the National Association of Iron Manufacturers for 1872, 229
 
Strength of Materials and Structures, John Ander-son, C.E., LL.D., F.R.S.E., 190, 304
 
Water Supply of Bombay, Major Tulloch, 379
 
Works in Iron Bridge and Roof Structures, Ewing Matheson, 165
 
Loader for Heavy Guns, 233
 
Locomotive, Details of Tank, Mr. W. Stroudley
 
London and Brighton Railway, 140, 186, 191
 
Locomotive, The Grasshopper, Baltimore Railway, 182 Locomotive, Herr E. Kessler’s Passenger, Carl-Lud-wigsbahn, Vienna Exhibition, 350, 351, 355, 366, 368
 
Locomotives on Roads Bill, 255
 
Locomotives for Steep Gradients, 171, 184, 202, 250, 282, 334
 
London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, 255
 
London and County Bank, Half-yearly Report, 92
 
Louvet, M., Scaffolding used in Repairing the Pantheon, Paris, 144,146
 
Lundquist, Mr. Erick, Smelting Apparatus 383 Luxuries of Labour, 142
 
Lyster, C.E., Mr. G. F., Liverpool Docks, 117
 
Magneto-Electro Machine, 132. 142
 
Mallet, Mr.. Producing Oxygen, 64
 
Mallet, C.E.. F.R.S., Mr. Robert, On the Thickness Necessary for Conduit Pipes to enable them to Resist the Shock of Suddenly Arrested Water, 327
 
Markets, Metal, Oil, Timber, &c. (See last page of every number.)                    x 1 J J
 
Mason, Mr. J., Launch Engines, 233
 
Means of Reducing Consumption of Fuel by Old Steam
 
Engines, 77, 91, 107, 142, 153. 184, 245
 
Mercadier, M., Electro-Diapason, 388
 
Mersey Tunnel Scheme, 382
 
Mexico, A Trip through, 132
 
Microgoniometer, The. 179
 
Micro-Spectroscope, Mr. E. J. Gayer, 332
 
Midland Railway, Appointment of Mr. W. Adams, 346, 368                                                  ’
 
Military Saddles. 250
 
Mill, Mr. R., Fuel Economiser, 183
 
Mine Ventilation, 250, 282
 
Mines, Ventilation of Coal, 153,184
 
Mint, The Japanese, 282
 
Miscellanea, 3, 19, 35, 49, 63, 79, 97, 109 129 139 157
 
JoZ’ IS’ 203’ 215’ 235’ 2C8> 283> 297> 32]. 361, 352,369; «5ob, 401
 
Mixing Moulding Sand. Mr. Jules Hautchin. 332
 
Mortar and Concrete, Mr. Reid, C.E., at the Edinburgh and Leith Engineers Society, 316
 
Motion, or Velocity and Acceleration, 33
 
Moy and Shill, Messrs., Non-Radiating Steam Engine, 48, 54, 66, 112
 
Napier and Sons, Messrs. R., Sections of Cylindersand Details of Compound Marine Engine, 270-H.P., 383 348                                                        ’    ’
 
Naval Engineers, 405
 
Navy, The United States, 99
 
Neuberg Steel Works, Styria, 361, 370, 404
 
New Gas Company, Prospectus, 71
 
Newport Mills Industrial Partnerships, Annual Meeting, 142
 
Newsvendors’ Benevolent and Provident Institution, 219                                                        ’
 
New Zealand. Progress in, 126
 
Nickel, The Supply of, 353
 
JJolet, M., Expansive Engine, 168, 172, 184
 
North fleet Relief Fund Exhibition, 239
 
Notes from Lancashire, 32. 45, 60, 75, 89 105 121 185
 
,3U9-$-
 
321, 352, 361,369, 386, 401            ’    ’    ’
 
N^aS Scotland» 16, 32, 46, 60. 75, 90. 106 121 136
 
35 ’ - ’          2111 243' 260’ 276> 292> 31®: 32M446:
 
oil, o>M,
 
Notices to Con-espondents, 10, 25, 41, 55, 69, 85, 99, Ila, 131, 14a, la8, 173, 189, 205, 221, 237 253 269 285,303, 319,337, 353, 371, 387. 403      ’    ’    '
 
Obelisk of Alexandria, Mechanical Means of Removing, 67, 83, 96
 
Obituary
 
Barrett, Mr. Alfred. 6
 
Condres, Louis de, 86
 
Greenwood. Mr. Thomas, 113
 
Jones, Dr. H. Bence, 251
 
Liebig, Baron Justus, 253
 
Rankine Professor W. J. Macquorn, Notice in the
 
Journal of the Franklin Institute, 282
 
Thomson, Mr R. W., 156
 
Tite, Sir William, 255
 
Olmstead, Mr. J., Magneto-Electric Brake North
 
London Railway, 154
 
Opening of the International Exhibition, 229
 
Overloading of Steamers, Mr. J. W. Richardson nt th a
 
Institution of Naval Architects, 281            the
 
Oxford Main Drainage. 142
 
Oxygen, Mr. Mallet’s Method of Producing 64
 
Oyster, A Patent, 198
 
Palace, the Alexandra, 371
 
Pasteur, Al. J. D., Submarine Lamp, 151
 
Patent International Congress, 185
 
Patent Law and the New Lord Chancellor, 38
 
Patent Law in Prussia, 261
 
Patent Law Reform, Proposed, 115
 
Payne, Messrs., Feed-water Heater, 183
 
Peat Condensing, Messrs. Clayton and Howlett, 86, 107. Ill, 20.6
 
Peat Works, Mr. F. Healy, 206
 
Petersen, Mr. W., Steam Lifeboat, 126
 
Petherick and Rock, Messrs., Safety Valves, 380 Phosphorised Bronze for Cannon, 132 Piles, Protecting, 174
 
Piston, Steam Packet, 250, 282
 
Planing Machine, Duplex, Mr. A. Moore Thompson, loZ
 
Plate Girders, On the Depths of 22
 
| Port Patrick Cable, The, 7
 
Portugal, Steam Tramways in, 166
 
“ Power Jumper,” The, 125
 
Pre-Patent Protection, 42, 53, 82
 
Printing, Air. S. Cropper’s Platen, 65
 
Private Bills, 71, 132. 180, 207
 
Private Bills Deposited, 2
 
Private Bills, the Estimates, 26
 
Propellers, Fitting Screw, 382
 
Protection of Inventions at tho Vienna Exhibition, 23 Prussia, Patent Law in, 261
 
Public Works of the Second Empire, 100
 
Public Works in Turkey, 7
 
Ruddier, Air. Broomhall, 279
 
Pulp-making Machinery, Demand for, 113
 
Pump, Mr. Schmid’s, 216
 
Raft, Mr. E. Farrell’s, C.E., Life Saving, 282 Railroads, Wooden, 26
 
Railway Carriagesand Wagons, 179—Table of Working Expenditure, Half-year, December 1871, 187
 
Railway, Egyptian, 123
 
Matters, 3, 19, 35, 49, 63, 79, 97, 109, 129, 139, 3697:    «i’ 21s> 236’ 25112681283-297- 821’361-
 
Railway Routes to India, 382, M. Lesseps’ Project, 387 Railways in Central Asia, 348 Railways in China, 71 Railways, Indian, 368, 400 Railways, Narrow Gauge, 214 Railways in Victoria, 127 Railways in War, 301
 
Rankine, Professor, and the Highland and Agricultural Society, 52                              &
 
Rankine C.E., LL.D., F.R.S., W. J. M., Remarks on Binary Vapour Engines, 395
 
Rankine, The Late Professor, On Waves in Liquids, Out)
 
Regulating Alarine Engines, Air. Menton, 207 itei^d, C.E., Mr. R. C., On Mortar and Concrete, at the
 
Edinburgh and Leith Engineers’ Society, 316
 
Report. The Patent Gas, 42
 
Resistance of Woods to Torsional Strain, 310
 
Results of the Trials of Portable Engines at Cardiff, 231
 
Reynolds, M-A., Air. Osborne, Causes of the Racing of the Engines of Screw Steamers—Institution of Nava Architects, 295
 
Richardson, Air. J. W., On the Overloading of Steamers —Institution of Naval Architects, 281
 
Robertson, Air. J., Rolling Fluid Steel, 2, 4
 
Robey and Co., Messrs., 8-Horse Power Horizontal Engine. Vienna Exhibition, 298
 
Rochussen and Daelen, Messrs., Steel, 249 Rolling Fluid Steel, Air. J. Robertson, 2, 4 Rolling Stock, Improved Railway, 23 Routes to Vienna, 287
 
Ruahine and Liffey, Engines and Boilers, Messrs.
 
Day and Summers, 234, 236
 
Runquist, Air. R., Oscillating Governor, 265, 266 Russian Alinistry of Marine. 296
 
Sacre, Air. C., Composite Carriage, Alanchester, Shef-field, and Lincolnshire Railway, 266, 267
 
Saddles, Alilitary. 250
 
Safes, Mr. Elwell’s, 398
 
Safety Valve Competition for £100, 247
 
St. Gothard Railway, Tho, 65, 94, 168
 
Sale of Wood Working Machinery, Burdett-road, Limehouse, 146
 
Sam al and Berouson, At Al., Bleaching, 71
 
Scaffolding used in Repairing the Paris Pantheon, M. Louvet, 144, 146
 
Schmid, Air., Pumps, 216
 
Science in Japan, Progress of, 377
 
Sea Sickness, Prevention of, 349
 
Semmering. Over the, 338
 
Sewage, Disposal of, 319
 
Sewing Alachine for Heavy Work, Wheeler, Wilson, and Co., 80                                              ’
 
Shaw s Tuyere, for Smiths’ Hearths, Messrs. Crowley and Co., Makers, 110
 
Sheet Iron on Railways, 380
 
Sheffield District, 16, 31, 46, 60, 76, 90, 106, 122, 135, 150, 164, 178, 196, 212, 228, 244, 259, 276, 292, 310, 326, 360. 378, 394, 408
 
Shipbuilders’ Competition between British and Foreign, 353 -
 
Ship Canal, Proposed—India and Ceylon, 377 Shipping Trade, 151
 
Ships, Ironclad, 221
 
Ships’ Lines, 313, 334
 
Ships, Wooden, 156
 
Shoeburyness, Experiments on Carriages and Rockets, 123
 
Sicilian Resources, 127
 
Siebe, Gorman, and Christy’s, Ship Raising Steamer,
 
Siemens, Air. C. W., Steel Process, 185
 
Signalling Apparatus, as Fitted to the Royal Train, London and North-Western Railway, Air. S. A. Varley, 395
 
Signalling on Railways—Block System, 368
 
Signalling at Sea, 96
 
Signalling, Submarine Friction, Dynamometers'and Deep Sea Soundings, Sir W. Thomson, Ou, 174
 
Sigi, Herr G., 8-Wheeled Goods Engine, Southern Railway of Austria, 336
 
Sizes and Construction of the Portable Steam Engines tried at Cardiff. Messrs. Eastons and Anderson, 230 Smelting Apparatus. Air. Erick Lundquist, 383 Society, The Agricultural:—
 
List of Prizes, 349
 
Society, Amalgamated Engineers’, 207
 
Society of Arts :—
 
Gas Lighting by Electricity, Air. W. Lloyd Wise,, C.E., 142
 
Society for Buenos Ayres, The Scientific, 372
 
Society, Cail and Co., Paris, 6
 
Society, The Chemical, 185
 
Action of Bromine on Alizarine, W. H. Perkin, F.R.S.,397
 
Action of Hydrochloric Acid on Codeine, Dr. C. R. A. Wright, 156
 
Action of Sodium on Aniline, Dr. H. G. Armstrong, 92
 
Air Bath of Constant Temperature between 100 deg. and 200 deg. C2, H. Springel, 156 Anthrapurpurine, Air. W. H. Perkin, 92
 
Aurin, Air. R S. Dale, B.A., and Air. C. Schorlem-mer, F.R.S.,128
 
Communication from the Laboratory of the London Institution, Dr. H. G. Armstrong, 224
 
Cymene from Different Sources Optically Considered, Dr. J. H. Gladstone, 397
 
Cymenes from Various Sources, Dr. C. R. A. Wright, 224
 
Decomposition of Tri-Calcic Phosphate by Water, Air. R. Warrington, 397
 
Detection of Ammonia in the Atmosphere, Air. I. H. Snell, 128
 
Determining with Great Exactness the Specific Gravity of Liquids, Dr. H. Sprengel. 224
 
Dioxides of Calcium and Strontium, Sir J. Conway, Bart,ALA., 364
 
Society, The Chemical :—
 
Estimating Nitric Acid, T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S.E., 156
 
Ethyl Amyl, Mr. Harry Grimshaw, 67
 
Heat Produced by Chemical Action, Dr. Debus, 254
 
Hepbanes from Petroleum, Dr. C. Schorlemmer, F.R.S., 67
 
Influence of Pressure on Fermentation. Part II., Influence of Reduced Pressure on Alcoholic Fermentation, Mr. Horace T. Brown, 397
 
Iodine Nonochloride, Mr. J. B. Hannay, 364
 
Isomerism, Dr. Armstrong, 311
 
Isomerism in the Terpene Family of Hydrocarbons, Dr. C. R. A. Wright, 92
 
Mercury Estimation and Mercury Salts, J. B. Hannay, 156
 
Nature of the Black Deposit in the Copper Zinc Couple, Dr. Gladstone, and G. Tribe, F.C.S., 156
 
Nature and Some Derivatives of Coal Tar Cresol, H. E. Armstrong and C. L. Field, 397
 
New Class of Explosives, Dr. H. Sprengel, 281
 
New Tellurium Mineral, with Notes on a Systematic Mineralogical Nomenclature, J. B. Hannay, 397
 
Note on the Relation among the Atomic Weights, J. A. R. Newlands, 397
 
Notes on Various Chemical Reactions, Mr. Davies, 67
 
Oxidation and Decomposition Products of Morphine Derivatives, E. L. Mayer and C. R. A. Wright, 397
 
Pyrogallate of Lead, and on Lead Salts, Mr. W. H. Deering, 281
 
Reaction of the Acetates upon Lead Salts, Mr. F. Field, F.R.S., 156
 
Researches on the Action of the Copper Zinc Couple on Organic Bodies, Dr. Gladstone and A. Tribo, 198
 
Researches on the Action of the Copper Zinc Couple on Organic Bodies, Iodides of Amyl and Methyl, Dr. Gladstone, &c., and A. Tribe, 224
 
Researches on the Action of the Copper Zinc Couple on Organic Bodies III. on Normal and Isopropyl Iodides, Dr. Gladstone and A. Tribe, 397
 
Solidification of Nitrous Oxide, Mr. T. Wills. 128
 
Steel Process, Dr. C. W. Siemens, F.R.S., 185
 
Sulphur Bromide, Mr. J. B. Hannay, 364
 
Triferrous Phosphide, Mr. R. Schenk, 364
 
Vanadates of Thallium, Mr. Thomas Carnelly, 67 Zirconia, Mr. J. B. Hannay, 281
 
Society of Civil Engineers, American :— • Experiments on the Resistance of Stones to Crushing, C. B. Richards, M.E., 92
 
Pneumatic Foundations, Gen. W. Sovy Smith, 300
 
Pneumatic Piles, Mr. R. Cartwright, C.E.. 301
 
Rail Economy, C. P. Sandberg, C.E., 6, 382
 
Record of Some Experiments Showing the Character and Position of Neutral Axes as Seen by Polarised Light, Louis Nickerson, C.E., 78
 
Retaining Walls, Mr Casinni Constable, 166
 
Rock Drilling, F. Collingwood, C.E., 92
 
Screw Piles for Supporting a 24in. Water Main Across the Providence River, Mr. C. D. Ward, C.E., 301
 
Shaw’s Gunpowder Pile-driver, Samuel R. Probasco, C.E.,882
 
Society, Civil and Mechanical Engineers’, 368
 
Various Kinds of Condensing Apparatus for Engines, Mr. E. Perrett, 108
 
Visit to the Extension Works of the Great Eastern Railway, 18
 
Society, The Cornwall Polytechnic, 298
 
Society of East Belgium, The Agricultural, 124
 
Society of Engineers, 47, 397
 
Charging and Drawing Gas Retorts, Mr. John Somerville, 362
 
Continuous Railway Brakes, Mr. W. H. Fox, C.E., 142, 152
 
Horse Railways and Steam Tramways, Mr. Henry Gore, 246
 
Railway Train Intercommunication, Mr. S. A. Varley, 395
 
Visit to the Albert Bridge, 315
 
Society of Engineers, Manchester, 96
 
Society, Manchester Scientific and Mechanical 234, 250, 332
 
Steam Jacket, its Advantages and Disadvantages—is it Truly Economical? Mr. A. Hildebrandt. 113
 
Strength of Materials, Especially Considering the Effects of Sudden Fluctuations in the Shape of Structures, Professor Osborne Reynolds, 71
 
Travelling Cranes, Mr. Theodore Grosse, 191
 
Ventilation of Mines, Mr. J. Hecking, 138
 
Society, The Meteorological:—
 
Land and Sea Breezes, Mr. J. K. Laughton, 348
 
Land and Sea Breezes, Rev. L. W. Stow, 348
 
Society, The Royal:—
 
Action of Light on the Electrical Resistance of Silenium, Lieut. Sale, R.E., 335
 
Ah* Battery, Dr. Gladstone and Mr. Tribe, 254
 
Anatomy and Histology of Land Planarians of Ceylon, Mr. Moseley, 171
 
Bacteria, Mr. H. Charlton Bastian, 171, 280
 
Bakerian Lecture, Earl of Rosse, 254
 
Condensation of a Mixture of Air and Steam upon Cold Surfaces, Mr. Osborne Reynolds, 280
 
Curvature and Orthogonal Surfaces, Professor Cayley, 171                                            J
 
Distribution of the Invertebrate in Relation to the Theory of Evolution, Dr. Macdonald, 254
 
Durability and Preservation of Iron Ships, and on Riveted Joints, Sir William Fairbairn, 280
 
Effect of Pressure on the Character of the Spectra of Gases, Messrs. Steam and Lee, 281
 
Employment of Meteorological Statistics in Determining the Course for a Ship whose Sailing Qualities are Known, Mr. Francis Galton, 280
 
Ethyl and Methyl Aniline, Mr. J. Spiller, 171
 
Further Remarks on the Sense of Sight in Birds, Mr. R. J. Lee, 67
 
Heat and Electricity, Mr. F. Guthrie, 171
 
Leaf Arrangement, Dr. Herbert Airy, 171
 
Magnetic Observations in the Britannia and Conway Tubular Iron Bridges, Sir George Biddell Airy, 67
 
Magnetic Survey of Belgium, Rev. S. J. Perry, 171
 
Motion of a Body About a Fixed Point, Mr. E. J. Routh, 254
 
New Formula for a Microscopic Object Glass, Mr. J. H. Wenham, 83
 
New Locality of Amblygonite, and on Montebrasite, M. des Cloiseaux, 171
 
New Method of Viewing the Chromosphere, Messrs.
 
J. N. Lockyer and G. M. Seabroke, 67
 
Note on an Erroneous Extension of Jacobi’s Theorem, Mr. J. Todhunter, 83
 
Observations on the Temperature of the Arctic Sea near Spitzbergen, Captain J. C. Wells, R.N., 67
 
Organisation of Certain Fossil Plants of the Coal Measures, Professor W. C. Williamson, 67
 
Osteology of Hyopotamidaj, Dr. W. Kowalevsky
 
Periodicity of Rainfall in Connection with the
 
Sun Spot Periodicity, Mr. C. Meldrum, 335
 
Researches in Spectrum Analysis in Connection with the Spectrum of the Sun, Mr. J. N. Lockyer
 
Structure of Striped Muscular Fibre, Mr. Schafer, 254                                                      ’
 
Supersaturated Saline Solutions,
 
171
 
Mr. C. Tomlinson,
 
Synthesis of Marsh Gas and Formic Acid, and on the Electric Decomposition of Carbonic Oxide, Sir B. C. Brodie, 254
 
Temperature at which Bacteria, &c., and their Supposed Germs are Killed when Immersed in Fluid, or Exposed to Heat in a Moist State, Dr. Bastian. 254
 
Union of Ammonia Nitrate with Ammonia, Dr. E. Divers, 67
 
Vapour Density of Potassium, Mr. J. Dewar and Mr. W. Dittmar, 171
 
Visible Direction, Dr. James Jago, 171
 
Wide Slit Method of Viewing Solar Prominences, Mr. Higgins, 98
 
Society, The Royal Microscopic :—
 
Crystallisation of Metals by Electricity under the Microscope, Mr. Philip Braham, 216
 
Society of Telegraph Engineers. 130, 334
 
Address of the President, Mr. Frank Ives Scudamore, 33
 
Block System of Working on Railways, Captain Mallock. 296
 
Block System of Working on Railways, Mr. W. H.
 
Preece, 296
 
Common Source of Error in Measurement of Currents of Short Duration, when Using Galvanometers with Shunts, Mr. Latimer Clark, 83
 
Direct Method of Determining Battery Resistances, Mr. Von Chauvin, 31
 
Earth Currents, Mr. Stout, 201
 
Earth Currents, Mr. G. K. Winter, 201
 
Experiences in India. Mr. Ayrton, 254
 
ImprovedTom of Joule’s Tangent Galvanometer, Sir W. Thomson, 34
 
Iron Telegraph Poles, Mr. W. Siemens, 143
 
Lightning and Lightning Conductors, Mr. Graves, <54
 
Measurement of Electrostatic Capacity, Sir W.
 
Thomson. 83                      J
 
Riband Telegraph Poles, Mr. Robert Bristow Lee, 143
 
Telegraph Poles, Lieut. Jekyll. R.E., 143
 
Telegraph Poles, Major Webber, 143
 
Testing Lengths of Highly Insulated Wire, Professor Fleeming Jenkin, F.R.S., 254
 
Somerset Dock at Malta, 56
 
South Cleveland Ironworks, Limited, 142
 
South-Eastern Railway, New Suburban Station, New Cross. 377
 
South Kensington Museum, 7, 23, 53. 76, 80, 110, 128, 143, 207, 228, 238, 247, 276, 282, 296, 312, 330, 346, 365, 384, 400
 
Sparrow, Mr. J. W., Collecting Blast Furnace Waste
 
Gases, 37
 
Special Rules at the Lancashire Collieries, 377
 
Spindle Step, Mr. Henry, 398
 
Spontaneous Ignition of Oiled Cotton or Silk Waste 174
 
Steam to Australia, 165
 
Steamers, Channel, 22
 
Steamers, Overloading of, 281, 314, 349
 
Steamers to South America, N.w Line of, 372
 
Steel, Prize for, Council of the Society of Arts, 92
 
Steel Process, Dr. C. W. Siemens, F.R.S., 185
 
Steel, Producing Direct from the Ore, Messrs. Rochus-
 
sen and Daelen, 249
 
Steel ? What is, 364, 393
 
Steel Works in Styria, The Neuberg, 361, 370, 404
 
Steering Screw, Captain Bremner, 110
 
Stone Breaker and Traction Engine for the Ceylon
 
Railway, Mr. Blake’s, 110
 
Stone and Ore Crushing Machine, Mr. J. C. Cole’s, 155
 
Streets, The Engineer in the, 285
 
Strike, The End of the, 173
 
Strike in South Wales, 41. 55
 
Stroudley, Mr. W., Six-Coupled Tank Engine, London
 
Brighton, and South Coast Railway, 1^5. (See also Supplement.)
 
Stroudley, Mr. W., Details of Tank Locomotive, Lon-don and Brighton Railway, 140, 186, 191
 
W., I’ank Engine lor Metropolitan
 
Traffic, South London Railway, 34, 40
 
Stuffing Boxes, Mr. Watteeu’s, Metallic, 216
 
Submarine Mine Experiments, Stokes Bay, 263, 298
 
Sub-Wealden Exploration, 125
 
Suckling, Mr. N. F., Sectional Steam Boiler, 127
 
Suez, Construction of a New Port at, 400
 
Swedish Iron Rolling Stock and Implement Works, 241
 
Swedish Pig Iron, 191
 
System, The Contract, 372
 
Tay Bridge, The, 197, 200, 204, 209, 220
 
Taylor, Mr. S., Waterloo Flour Mills, 21
 
Tees, The River, 303
 
Telegraphy, Practical Papers on, 339
 
Tensile btreagth of American and English Iron and
 
Steel, 138
 
Thickness Necessary to bo Given to Conduit Pipes to Enable their Walls to Resist the Shock of the Moving Liquid Column when Suddenly Arrested, Mr. Robt. Mallet, C.E., F.R.S., 327
 
Thompson, Mr. A. Moore, Duplex Planing Machine, 182
 
Thomson, Sir W., On Submarine Signalling, Friction
 
Dynamometers and Deep Sea Soundings, 174
 
Thwaites, C.E., Mr. C., Appointment to the Office of
 
City Engineer and Surveyor for Norwich, 143
 
Time at the Antipodes, 108
 
Tires, Iron and Steel, 403
 
Torpedo, Captain Ericsson, 21
 
Torpedo Launch, Messrs. Yarrow and Hedley’s, Steam, 51
 
Torpedoes in Naval Actions, Offensive Use of, 159
 
Tracing Paper, 166
 
Trade in Sheffield, 380
 
Trades Unions and Legislation, 55
 
Training, Professional, 387
 
Trains, Mr. E. Gilbert’s Electrical Communication for, 326
 
Tramways of Bahia, Central, 94
 
Tramways in Lisbon, Steam, IS
 
Tramways at Lisbon, Mr. C. F. Trevithick, 232, 233
 
Tramways in Portugal, 166
 
Tramways, Street, 334
 
Tramways, Street, Mr. H. Gore, at the Society of Engineers, 248
 
Trial of Breech-loading Arms at the Springfield
 
Armoury, 2
 
Tunnel, Mont Cenis, 174
 
Turf Fuel in Holland, Production of, 400
 
Turret of H.M.S. Hotspur, Fixed, 37
 
Tuyere for Smiths’ Hearths, Mrs. Shaw, Messrs,
 
Crowley and Co., Makers, 110
 
Type, Composing and Distributing Machine, M. Kas-tenbein, 262, 263
 
Underground Railways in America, 346
 
United States Manufacturing Company, Expanding Tap for Couplings, 155
 
Utilising Old Iron, 382
 
Valve, Messrs. J. Chandler and Co.’s Compound Lever Ball, 21
 
Valve, Messrs. Coxhead and Miller’s Regulator, 127, 153
 
Valve, Mr. W. Dawson’s Safety, 155
 
Valves, Corliss, 202
 
Valves, Messrs. Petherick and Rock’s Safety, 380
 
Valve, Safety, 185
 
Varley, Mr. S. A., Signalling Apparatus, as fitted to the Royal Train, London and North-Western Railway, 395
 
Varnish for Labels, 382
 
Viaduct on the Whitby, Redcar, and Middlesbrough Railway, 151, 158
 
Vienna Exhibition, 42, 238, 269, 270, 286, 293, 311, 345                                                    ’
 
Brake, Messrs. Eastons and Anderson’s 20-horse power Friction, 373
 
Building, Cross Section of Nave and Transepts, 17, 26                                                              >
 
Engine, Herr G. Lcssner’s, 25-horse power Condensing Expansive, 399, 402, 405
 
Engine, Pumping, Erste Brunner Maschinen
 
Fabriks Gesselschaft, 381, 385
 
Engine, Messrs. Robey and Co.’s, 8 horse-power Horizontal, 289
 
Engines, 293
 
Gun, Russian 40-ton, Abouchoff Steel Works 398
 
Jur.es, . 56, 182
 
Locomotive. Passenger, for the Carl Ludwigsbahn, Herr E. Kessler. 350, 351, 355, 366, 368
 
Map of Routes, 287
 
Protection of Inventions, 23
 
Rotunda of the Building, 287
 
Vienna Exhibition and the United States, 34
 
Wales and the Adjoining Counties, 16, 32, 46, 60, 76, 90, 106, 122, 136, 150, 164, 178, 196, 212, 228, 244, 260, 276, 292, 310, 326, 344, 360, 378, 394, 408
 
Walser. Mr. F., Fire Engine, 317, 318
 
War, The Ashantec, 320
 
Water Power on the Shannon at Killaloe, 299
 
Water Power in Relief of Steam, 189
 
Water Supply, Metropolitan, 199
 
Watteeu, Mr., Metallic Stuffing Boxes, 216
 
Wave Propulsion, 7
 
Waves in Liquids, Late Professor Rankine, 330
 
Weight of Railway Iron per Mile, 382
 
Westinghouse Brake on the Metropolitan District
 
Railway, 100, 113
 
Wheeler and Wilson Company’s Sewing Machine for
 
Heavy Work, 80
 
Whitby and Middlesbrough Railway, Mr. Dixon’s Piers, 151
 
Whitmore andBinyon’s, Messrs., Longitudinal Section of Waterloo Flour Mills, 34, 36, 95, 98—Transverse Section, 50
 
Wigan Colliery Explosion, 365
 
Wilson, Messrs., 35-ton Double Acting Steam Hammer at Woolwich Arsenal, 250, 252
 
Windmills, Pumping by, 128
 
Wood-Working Machinery, Burdett-road, Limehouse, Sale of, 146
 
Woolwich Arsenal, Tram Plates at, 53
 
Woolwich Infant, Interior of the late, SI
 
Work Done. Accumulated Work, or Kinetic Energy, and Pis Viva, 61
 
Wright’s Gas Producer, 182
 
Yarrow and Hedley’s, Messrs., Steam Torpedo Launch 51
 
Yates, Mr., Safety Lamp, 183


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  • Abouchoff Steel Works, Russian 40-ton Gun, Vienna Exhibition, 398
  • Accident, A Singular Railway, Padua Train, 118
  • Accidents on the United States Railway, 174
  • Act of Parliament, According to, 250
  • Agricultural Engineers in France, 80
  • Agricultural Society of East Belgium, 124
  • Air Power, 128
  • Albert Bridge, Battersea, Mr. F. W. Bryant, C.E. 62, 68 - Scaffolding and Gangway, 84, 114
  • America, Launch of the Steam Yacht, 214
  • American Exhibitors at the Vienna Exhibition, 199
  • American Opinion on English Patent Reform, 207
  • American Railway Progress, 71
  • American Rolling-Mill Engines, 51, 71
  • Ansell, Mr., Breech-loader, 383, 384
  • Appeal for Messrs. Downing's Workmen, 233
  • Aronson, Mr. J., Lantern Globes for Street Lamps, 64
  • Art of Getting Done, The, 285
  • ASSOCIATION OF FOREMEN ENGINEERS AND DRAUGHTSMEN, THE LONDON. 6:--
  • - Annual Meeting, 23
  • ASSOCIATION OF GAS MANAGERS, THE BRITISH:--
  • - Address of the President, Mr. A. Angus Croll, 364
  • - Coal Gas as a Fuel, Mr. F. W. Hartley, 365
  • - Coal Wasted in Gasworks, Mr. Methven, 365
  • - Lost or Unaccounted for Gas, Mr. W. B. Emmerson, 365
  • - Substitutes for Coal in the Production of Gas, Mr. Gore, 365
  • ASSOCIATION, MANCHESTER STEAM USERS', 174
  • - Annual Report, 202
  • ASSOCIATION OF MUNICIPAL AND SANITARY ENGINEERS AND SURVEYORS:--
  • - Inaugural Meeting, 282
  • Association, The Newsvendors', 113
  • Atlantic Telegraph Expedition, 372
  • Australia, Steam to, 165
  • Axle-boxes, Locomotive, 25, 39, 112
  • Azoff Coal Company, 214
  • Balloons, Navigable, 22, 39
  • Barrow-in-Furness, Port of, 113
  • Battery, A New, M. Cauderay, 101
  • Baxter, Mr., Engine, 51
  • Baynton, Mr., Rotary Puddling Furnace, 249
  • Belpaire, M. M. A., a 6-Coupled .Passenger Engine, Vienna Exhibition, 367
  • Bermondsey Explosion, 7, 38
  • Bismarck's Varzin Paper Mills, Prince. 101
  • Blake's Stonebreaker and Traction Engine for the Ceylon Railway, 110
  • Boat Lowering Apparatus, Mr. B. J. Kerridge, North-fleet Relief Fund Exhibition, 295
  • Boat-plugs, 128
  • Bohlken's Earth-borers, 80
  • Boiler, The "Downtaker," 112
  • Boiler Explosion, The Bermondsey, 7, 38
  • Boiler Explosion, A Cui ions, 22, 38, 53, 83, 141
  • Boiler Explosion, The Wapping, 371
  • Boiler Explosions, 397
  • Boiler Explosions, Kitchen, 128
  • Boiler, Mr. F. Hazeldine's Spiral Tube, 80
  • Boiler, Mr. N. F. Suckling's Sectional Steam, 127
  • Boilers, Circulation in, 25, 53
  • Boilers, Clothing, 184
  • Bolivian Railway, The, 320
  • Boomerang, An Iron, 56
  • Boot-soleing Machine, Mr. H. Kuhlman, 64
  • Boulogne Dock Gates, 272
  • Brake, North London Railway, Mr. J. Olmstead's Magneto-Electric, 154
  • Brakes, Action of, 219
  • Brakes, Continuous, 159, 171, 173, 189
  • Brakes, Power of, 202
  • Breakwater, The Kurrachee, 141
  • Breakwaters, Floating, 53
  • Breech-loader. Mr. F. Ansell's, 383, 384
  • Bremner, Captain, Steering Screw, 110
  • Bridge over the Danube Canal at Vienna, 294, 302
  • Bridge in Edinburgh, New North, 124
  • Bridge over the Neva at St. Petersburg, 365
  • Bridge, The Tay, 197, 200, 204, 209, 220
  • Bridge over the Tees, at Middlesbrough, Proposed Lifting, Mr. T. E. Laing, C.E., 128, 130
  • Brighton Locomotive and Carriage Works, 5-Roof of Workshops, 20, 23
  • British Jurors at the Vienna Exhibition, 182
  • Broomhall, Mr., Puddler, 279
  • Bronze, Ancient, 266
  • Bronze, Phosphorised, 171, 191
  • Bryant, C.E., Mr. F.W., Scaffolding and Gangway of the Albert Bridge, Battersea, 62, 68, 84, 114
  • Canadian Patent Laws, 346
  • Cannon, Phosphorised, Bronze for, 132
  • Carbon, Manufacture of, 18
  • Carriage, Composite, Mr. C. Sacre, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, 266, 267
  • Carriages and Rockets at Shoeburyness, Experiments in, 123
  • Carriages, Sleeping, North British Company, 92
  • Carriages and Wagons, Railway, 179--Table of Working Expenditure and Maintenance, Half-year Ending December, 1871, 187
  • Carrington and Plate, Messrs., Fire-grates, 110
  • Catechism of the Steam Engine in Chinese, 53
  • Causes of the Racing of Engines of Screw Steamers Investigated--Mr. Osborne Reynolds at the Institution of Naval Architects, 295
  • Centering and Scaffolding, 47, 62, 86, 116, 146
  • Chance Brothers, Messrs., Harbour Light, 216
  • Chandler and Co., Messrs. J., Compound Lever Ball Valve, 21
  • Chaplin and Co., Messrs., Portable Winding Engine for Mining Purposes, 299
  • Chatham, Gun-cotton, Experiments at, 389
  • Chinese Colliers, 247
  • Chronograph, Lc Boulcngc, Major Navcz, 213
  • Clarke, R.E., C.B., Colonel Sir A., Appointed as Governor of the Straits Settlements, 349
  • Clarke, R.E., C.B., Colonel Sir A., Greenwich Royal Naval College School and Gymnasium, 328, 329, 346, 347, 382
  • Clayton, Son and Howlett, Messrs., Peat Condensing, 86, 107, 111, 206
  • Cleveland District, 16, 31, 46, 60, 76, 90, 105, 122, 136, 150, 164, 178, 196, 212, 228, 244, 260, 275, 292, 310, 325, 344. 360, 378, 393, 408
  • Coal, The Committee on, 303
  • Coal Economies, 145, 223, 253
  • Coal Explorations in Notts and Lincolnshire, 238
  • Coal, Export of, 118
  • Coal Famine, The, 99, 115
  • Coal Importation of, 131
  • Coal in Ireland, 166
  • Coal Market, The London, 349
  • Coinage, International, 174
  • Cole, Mr. J. C., Stone and Ore Crushing Machine, 155
  • Compound Engines, 180, 199, 219, 222, 233, 250, 349
  • Concrete Chimney at South Docks, Sunderland, 332
  • Condensing with Hot Water, 96
  • Construction, Ancient, 403
  • Converters, Lining, 314
  • Co-operation, 238
  • Cork Represented at Vienna, 260
  • Corliss Engine at the Waterloo Flour Mills, Messrs. Hick and Co., 21, 24
  • Coxhead and Miller, Messrs., Regulator Valve, 127, 153
  • Cranes, Testing, 206, 219
  • Crane, Mr. T. Grosse's Travelling, 295
  • Cranes, Travelling, 191
  • Crichton and Co., Messrs. W., Engines of the Steam Launch Bujak Dere and General Admiral. 185, 188
  • Cropper, Mr. S., Platen Printing Machine, 65
  • Crystal Palace District Gas Company, 191
  • Crystal Palace, Practical Engineering at the, 7
  • Crystal Palace Practical Engineering School, 262
  • Dangers of Uniformity in Scientific Education, 33
  • Danks' Furnace, 156
  • Dawson, Mr. W., Safety Valve, 155
  • Day and Summer's, Messrs., Engines and Boilers of the SS. Liffey, 234, 236
  • Deep Sea Surveying Expedition, 125
  • Defective Steam Pipes, 180
  • Devastation, The, 237, 354
  • Dictionary, Tolhausen's Technological, 315
  • Dispute at the International Exhibition, 240
  • Dixon, Mr. Piers--Whitby and Middlesbrough Railway, 151, Upgang Viaduct, 158
  • Dock Gates, Boulogne Harbour, 272
  • Dock Gates, Construction of, 81, 93, 123, 169, 218 271, 345, 389
  • Dock Gates, Great Grimsby and Canada Docks, Birkenhead, 169
  • Dock Gates at Jarrow and the Surrey Docks, 217
  • Docks, Liverpool, Mr. G. F. Lyster, C.E., 117
  • Docks, Sunderland, Concrete Chimney at the South, 332
  • Dudgeon, Messrs. J. and W., Engines of SS. Ruahiue, 284, 288, 312
  • Dungeness, The Lesson from, 70, 85
  • Dunkirk, St. Nazaire, and Havre Dock Gates, 94
  • Dynamical Terms, Use and Abuse of, 18
  • Earth Borers, Bohlken's, 80
  • Eastbourne, Gun Cotton Experiments at, 300
  • Easton and Anderson's, Messrs., Brake 20-horse Friction--Vienna Exhibition, 373
  • Economy in Manufacture of Finished Iron, Important, 125
  • Edson's Gauge, 127
  • Education, Dangers of Uniformity in Scientific, 33
  • Egyptian Railway, 123
  • Electro Diapason, M. Mercadier, 388
  • Elwell, Mr., Safes, 398
  • Engine, Mr. Baxter's, 51
  • Engine, M. M. A. Belpaire's 6-coupled Passenger. Vienna Exhibition. 367, 368
  • Engine, Messrs. Head and Schernioths, Straw-burning Portable, Messrs. Ransomes, Sims, and Head, 313, 319
  • Engine for Metropolitan Traffic, South London Railway, Mr. W. Stroudley's Tank, 34, 40
  • Engine for Mining Purposes, Messrs. Chaplin and Co.'s Portable Winding, 299
  • Engine, Messrs. Moy and Shill's, Non-radiating, 48, 54, 66, 112
  • Engine, M. Nolet's Expansive, 168, 172
  • Engine, Messrs. Ruston and Proctor's, Portable, 7
  • Engine, 270-Horse Power, Sections of Cylinder and Details of Compound Marine, Messrs. R. Napier and Sons, 383, 384
  • Engine, Southern Railway of Austria, Herr G. Sigl's 8-Wheeled Goods, 336
  • Engine, The Steam Fire, 174
  • Engine, Mr. W Stroudley's 6-Coupled Tank, London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, 125. (See also Supplement)
  • Engineering College in Japan, 214
  • Engineering Considered as a Source of Profit, 315
  • Engineering at the Crystal Palace, Practical, 7
  • Engineering, Domestic, 349
  • Engineering School, Crystal Palace, Practical, 262
  • Engineers, Education of Young Mechanical, 141
  • Engineers, Naval, 405
  • Engines, American Rolling Mill, 51
  • Engines in Australia, Portable, 23
  • Engines of the Steam Launches, Bujak Dere and General Admiral, Messrs. W. Crighton and Co., 185, 188
  • Engines at Cardiff, Results of the trial of Portable, 231
  • Engines Tried at Cardiff, Sizes and Construction of Portable, 230
  • Engines, Compound, ISO, 199, 219, 222, 233, 250, 349
  • Engines, Compound and Non-compound, 388
  • Engines, Compounding Beam, 202
  • Engines, Furnace Gas, 69
  • Engines of the SS. Gael, 80. (See also Supplement)
  • Engines, Mr. F. J. Harker's Double Cylinder Steam Launch, 4
  • Engines for the Indian State Railways, Messrs. Hathorn, Davis, and Campbell's, Pumping, 23, 137
  • Engines, Mr. J. Mason's Steam Launch 233
  • Engines for Metropolitan Traffic, 131
  • Engines, Non-Compound Marine, 254
  • Engines, Portable, 221
  • Engines, Remarks on Binary Vapour, W. J. M. Rankine, C.E., LL.D., F.R.S., 395
  • Engines of SS. Ruahine, Messrs. J. and W. Dudgeon, 284, 288, 312
  • Engines ? What shall we do with our old Steam, 22, 41, 53, 66, 96
  • Ericsson, Captain, Torpedo, 21
  • Engine , Erste, Brunner, Gesselschaft, Pumping, 381, 383
  • Exhibition, Dispute at the International, 240
  • Exhibition, 1873, London International, 18
  • Exhibition, The Northfleet Relief Fuad 239
  • Exhibition, Opening of The International, 229
  • Expanding Tap for Couplings, United States Manufacturing Co., 155
  • Expansion of Water in Freezing, 277
  • Expenditure, Railway, 145, 185
  • Explosions, Coal Pit, 38
  • Explosions, Produced by High Notes. 71
  • Fearnley, Mr. W. G., Gas-making Apparatus, 316
  • Fire Detectors, 346
  • Fire Engine, Mr. F. Walser's, 317, 318
  • Fire Grates, Messrs. Carrington and Plate, 110
  • Fire at Messis. J. and G. Rennie's, Blackfriars, 82
  • Flax, Pre-Historic Culture of, 244
  • Floods, Prevention of, 270
  • Flour Mills, Longitudinal Section of Waterloo, Messrs. Whitmore and Binyon, 34, 36, 95, 98--Transverse Section, 50
  • Flour Mills, The Waterloo, Mr. Seth Taylor, 21
  • Fly-wheel, Bursting of a, Bolton Iron and Steel Works, 18
  • Fly-wheels, 155
  • Force, mass, iuertia, and momentum, 47
  • Fuel Economiser, Mr. R. Mill, 183
  • Fuel, Economy of, 171, 184
  • Fuel, by Old Steam Engines. Means of Reducing the Consumption of, 77, 91, 107, 142, 153, 184, 245
  • Furnace, Mr. Baynton's Rotary Puddling, 249
  • Furnace at Summerlee, New Blast, 101
  • Furnaces, Hot Air, 22, 38, 53, 66, 96
  • Furrell, C.E., Mr. E., Life Saving Raft, 282
  • Gas Coal Substitutes, 207
  • Gas, Latest Novelty in, 85
  • Gas Making Apparatus, Mr. W. G. Fearnley, 316
  • Gas, Patent, 55
  • Gas Producer, Mr. Wright 182
  • Gases, Mr J. W. Sparrow's Apparatus for Collecting Blast Furnace Waste, 37
  • Gauge, Edson's Recording, 127
  • Gauge, A Good Steam, Messrs. Williams, Jones, and Co., 7
  • Gauge, Mr. King's Combined Pressure and Vacuum, 126
  • Gauge in India, Break of, 219
  • Gayer, Mr. E. J., Micro-Spectroscope, 332
  • Gilbert, Mr. E.ª Electrical Communication in Trains, 326
  • Girders, The Tay Bridge, 237
  • Glasgow Subway, Proposed, 67
  • Glycerine, on Hydrate of Chloral, Action of, 38?
  • Governor, Mr. R. Runquist's Oscillating, 265, 266
  • Grasshopper Locomotive, Baltimore Railway, 182
  • Great Grimsby and Canada Docks, Birkenhead, 169
  • Greenwich Royal Naval College, School, and Gymnasium, Col. Sir A. Clarke, R. E., C.B., 329, 346, 347, 382
  • Grosse, Mr. T., Travelling Crane, 295
  • Gunboats, New, 101
  • Gun Carriage of the Future, The English, 61
  • Gun Carriage for Turret Use, The 18-Ton, 333, 349
  • Gun Cotton Experiments at Chatham, 389
  • Gun Cotton Experiments at Eastbourne, 300
  • Gun of the Future, The French, 281
  • Guns, Breech-loading, 250
  • Guns, British and German Heavy, 205
  • Guns, Steel, 92
  • Hammer at Woolwich Arsenal, Messrs. Wilson's 35-Ton Double-acting Steam, 250, 252
  • Harbour Light, Messrs. Chance, Brothers, 216
  • Harbours, Our Indian, 337
  • Harker, Mr. F. J., Double Cylinder Steam Launch Engines, 4
  • Harwood's London Machine Works Co., 156
  • Hathorn, Davis, and Campbell. Messrs., Steam Pumping Engine for India State Railways, 137
  • Hautchin, M. J., Mixing Moulding Sand, 332
  • Hazeldine, Mr. F., Spiral Tube Boiler, 80
  • Head and Schernioth, Messrs., Straw-burning Portable Engine, Messrs. Ransomes, Sims, and Head, 313, 319
  • Heater, Messrs. Payne's Feed-water, 183
  • Heavy Guns at Sea, 69
  • Henry, Mr., Spindle Step, 398
  • Hicks and Co., Messrs., Corliss Engine at the Waterloo Flour Mills, 21, 24
  • Hotspur, Fixed Turret of H.M.S., 37
  • Hot Water, Condensing with, 112
  • Ilfracombe Beds. Experiments in Smelting Tasmanian Iron Ore from, 116
  • INSTITUTE, THE IRON AND STEEL
  • - Address of the President, Mr. Lowthian Bell, 264
  • - Combustion of Powdered Fuel in Revolving Furnaces, Mr. T. R. Crampton, 277
  • - Oxide Dry Bottoms for Mill Furnaces, Mr. T. Greener, 278
  • - Rolling Mill Clutches, Mr. Jeremiah Head, 278
  • - Utilisation of Blast Furnace Slag, Mr. Charles Wood, 278
  • - Wire Rope Tramway, Mr. H. M. Morrison, 278
  • INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, 23, 34, 77, 142, 199, 344
  • - Annual Dinner, 207
  • - Conversazione at South Kensington, 335
  • - Cylindrical Foundations in Concrete, Brick, and Stonework, Mr. John Milroy, Assoc. Inst. C.E., 78
  • - Mont Cenis Tunnel, Mr. T. Sopwith, jun., M.I.C.E., 191
  • - Practice and Results of Irrigation in North India, Colonel W. H. Greathed, C.B., R.E., 52
  • - Relative Advantages of the 5-ft. 6-in. Gauge, and of the Metre Gauge for the State Railways of India, Mr. W. T. Thornton, 108
  • - Rigi Railway, Dr. W. Pole, F.R.S., M. Inst. C.E., 272
  • - Rise and Progress of Steam Locomotion on Common Roads, Mr. John Head, A.I.C.E., 239
  • Institution of Engineers, The Cleveland, 229
  • Institution of Foremen Engineers, 67
  • INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS:--
  • - Governors, Mr. F. W. Kitson, C.E.. 279
  • - Wenham, Mr. F. H., Heated Air Engine, Mr. Conrad W. Cooke, 279
  • - Working and Interlocking Railway Signal and Points, Mr. W. Baines, 71
  • INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS, 126, 207
  • - Auxiliary Power for Ocean Navigation, Mr. Henry Claughton, 207
  • - Causes of the Racing of the Engines of Screw Steamers Investigated Theoretically and by Experiment, Mr. Osborne Reynolds, 295
  • - Devastation, Thunderer, Fury, and Peter the Great, Mr. N. Barnaby, 223
  • - Overloading of Steamers, Mr. J. Wigham Richardson, 281
  • - President's Address, 223
  • - Waves in Liquids, Late Professor W. J. Macquorn Rankine, C.E., LL.D., F.R.S., andc, 330
  • Institution, The Royal Polytecnnic, 156
  • Invention, An Old, 365
  • Iron, Coal, and General Trades of Birmingham, andc., 15, 31, 45, 59, 75, 89, 105, 121, 135, 149, 163, 177, 195, 201, 227, 213, 259, 275, 291, 309, 325, 343, 359, 377, 393, 407
  • Iron, Important Economy in the Manufacture of Finished, 125
  • Iron and Steel, Tensile Strength of American and English, 138
  • Irrigation, Italian, 91
  • Italian Irrigation, 91
  • Japanese Mint, The, 282
  • Jarrow and the Surrey Docks Dock Gates, 217
  • Juries at the Vienna Exhibition, 156, 182
  • Kastenbein, M., Type Composing and Distributing Machine, 262, 263
  • Kerridge, Mr. B. J., Boat Lowering Apparatus, North-fleet Relief Fund Exhibition, 295
  • Kessler, Herr E., Passenger Locomotive for the Carl- Ludwigsbahn, Vienna Exhibition, 350, 351, 355, 366, 368
  • Killaloe, Water-power on the Shannon above, 299
  • King's Combined Pressure and Vacuum Gauge, 126
  • Krupp Guns, 96
  • Kuhlmann, Mr. H., Boot Soleing Machine, 64
  • Kutab Pillar, The, 22, 39, 53, 66, 83, 96, 153
  • Laing, C.E., Mr. T. E., Proposed Lifting Bridge over the Tees at Middlesbrough, 128, 130
  • Lamps, Mr. Yates' Safety, 183
  • Lantern Shades for Street Lamps, Mr. J. Aronson, 64
  • LEADERS :--
  • - Alexandra Palace, The, 371
  • - Ancient Construction, 403
  • - Annual Article, 1873, lo
  • - Art of Getting Done, The, 285
  • - Ashantee War, The, 320
  • - British and German Heavy Guns, 205
  • - Circulation in Boilers, 25
  • - Coal Economies, 145
  • - Coal Famine, The, 99, 115
  • - Committee on Coal, The, 303
  • - Competition between British and Foreign Shipbuilders, 353
  • - Compound and Non-compound Engines, 388
  • - Continuous Brakes, 159, 173, 189
  • - Contract System, The, 372
  • - Co-operation, 238
  • - Devastation, The, 237, 354
  • - Disposal of Sewage, 319
  • - Economisation of Small Coal and Dust, 253
  • - End of the Strike, 173
  • - Engineer in the Streets, The, 285
  • - Furnace Gas Engines, 69
  • LEADERS :--
  • - Heavy Guns at Sea, 69
  • - Importation of Coal, 131
  • - Ironclad Ships, 221
  • - Iron and Steel Tires. 403
  • - Justus Liebig, 253
  • - Latest Novelty in Gas, 85
  • - Lesson from Dungeness, 70, S5
  • - Locomotive Axle Boxes, 25
  • - Locomotive Engines for Metropolitan Traffic, 131
  • - Non-compound Marine Engines, 251
  • - Offensive Use of Torpedoes in Naval Actions, 159
  • - Our Indian Harbours, 337
  • - Over the Semmering, 333
  • - Patent Gas, 55
  • - Patent Gas Report, The, 42
  • - Portable Engines, 221
  • - Prevention of Floods, 270
  • - Professional Training, 337
  • - Proposed Patent Law Reform, 115
  • - Railway Expenditure, 145
  • - Railway Routes to India, M. Lesseps' Project, 387
  • - Ransome and Co's Straw-burning Locomotive Messrs., 319
  • - River Tees, The, 303
  • - Strike in South Wales, 41
  • - Supply of Nickel, 353
  • - Tay Bridge Girders, 237
  • - Testing Cranes, 206
  • - Trades Unions and Legislation, 55
  • - United States Navy, The, 99
  • - Vienna Exhibition, 42, 206, 238, 269, 270, 236
  • - Wapping Boiler Explosion. The, 371
  • - Water Power in Relief of Steam, 189
  • - Westinghouse Brake on the Metropolitan District Railway, 100
  • - What Shall we do with our Old Steam Engines? 41
  • - Wooden Railroads, 26
  • La Boulenge Chronograph, Major Navez, 213
  • LEGAL INTELLIGENCE :--
  • - Binney versus Feldtmann, 48, 348
  • - Blake's Patent, Sewing Boots, andc., 39
  • - Carr's Patent, Disintegrator, 39
  • - Mortar and Concrete, Mr. R. C. Reid, C.E., 316
  • - Saxby versus Stennett, 34S
  • - Smith versus Bullen, 348
  • - Society Edinburgh and Leith Engineers
  • Lessner, Herr G. 25-horse Condensing Expansive Engine, Vienna Exhibition, 399, 402, 405
  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR :--
  • - "According to Act of Parliament," Tommy Merton, 250
  • - Action of Brakes, F. N. T., 219
  • - Alexandria Obelisk, T. A. A , 96
  • - Alexandria Obelisk, W. A. Wharton, 82
  • - Appeal for the Workmen of Messrs. Downing's Floorcloth Factory, J. Abbott, 238
  • - Bermondsey Boiler Explosion, H.M.C., 7
  • - Bermondsey Boiler Explosion, W., 38
  • - Block System of Signalling on Railways, W. H. Clapp, 368
  • - Boat Plugs, H. Walker, 129
  • - Boiler Economy, W. B. P., 184
  • - Break of Gauge in India, Hardy Wells, 219
  • - Breechloading Guns, L. H. Broadwell, 250
  • - Channel Steamers, A. Alexander, 22
  • - Circulation in Boilers, E. Mirchin, 53
  • - Clothing Boilers, a Constant Reader, 184
  • - Coal Pit Explosions, Robert James, 38
  • - Compound Engines, Another Working Engineer 184
  • - Compound Engines, Chiaja, 234
  • - Compound Engines, H. R., 219
  • - Compound Engines, W. McNaught, 234 250
  • - Compound Engines, J. Molesworth, 233
  • - Compound Engines, Working Engineer, 219
  • - Compound Engines, X. Y., 349
  • - Compounding Beam Engines, S. C. Harris, 202
  • - Condensing with Hot Water, W. R. R., 96, 112
  • - Continuous Brakes, W. Chapin, 171
  • - Continuous Brakes, F. N. T., 171
  • - Corliss Valves, Douglas and Grant, 202
  • - Coxhead and Miller's Regulation Valve, Mac., 153
  • - Curious Boiler Explosion, William Bishop, 53
  • - Curious Boiler Explosion, Horticulturist, 22, 82
  • - Curious Boiler Explosion. Inspecting Engineer, 141
  • - Curious Boiler Explosion, Metallurgist, 38
  • - Depths of Plate Girders, Wm. Donaldson, 22
  • - Domestic Engineering, R. C., 349
  • - "Downtake" Boiler, Richard Pollit, 112
  • - Economy of Fuel, J. Jeavons, 171
  • - Education of Young Mechanical Engineers, 141
  • - Explosions of Kitchen Boilers, C. L. Riker, 129
  • - Fitting Screw Propellers, Robert Griffiths, 382
  • - Floating Breakwaters, Herefordshire Incumbent, 53
  • - Gun Carriage, The 18-Ton, Stephen Holman, 349
  • - Hot Air Furnaces, T. Milnes Favell, C.E., F.G.S., 38, 66
  • - Hot Air Furnaces, Andrew Howatson, 53
  • - Hot Air Furnaces, W. C. Rawlins, 53, 96
  • - Hot Air Furnaces, J. Slater, 53
  • - Hot Air Furnaces. Working Engineer, 66
  • - Indian Railway, Narrow Gauge, 368, 400
  • - Kurachee Breakwater, R. S., 141
  • - Kutab Pillar, The, C. W., 82
  • -Kutab Pillar, The, David Forbes, 22
  • - Kutab Pillar, The, George M. Fraser, 66, 96
  • - Kutab Pillar, The, Robert Mallett, 39, 153
  • - Kutab Pillar, The, S., 66
  • - Kutab Pillar, W. F. G., 53
  • - Laws of Combustion in Connection with Hot Air Furnaces, John Downes, 22
  • - Lining Converters. W. Yates, 314
  • - Locomotive Axle Boxes, John Davis, 39
  • - Locomotive Axle Boxes, Chas. H. Westley, 142
  • - Locomotive for Steep Gradients, Henry Appleby, 184
  • - Locomotives for Steep Gradients, Robert F. Fairlie, 184
  • - Locomotives for Steep Gradients, G. Gibson, 171
  • - Locomotives for Steep Gradients, J. H. B., 334
  • - Locomotives for Steep Gradients, Thomas Midelton 282
  • - Locomotives for Steep Gradients, Observer, 250
  • - Mechanical Means of Removing the Prostrate Obelisk of Alexandria to England, J. L. Haddan A.I.C.E., 67
  • - Midland Railway, The, W. Adams. 368
  • - Moy and Shill's Non-radiating Engine,N. P. Burgh 112
  • - Navigable Balloons, Thomas Moy, 39
  • - Navigable Balloons, X. Y., 22
  • - New Lord Chancellor and Patent Law, Edmund Hunt, 38, 53
  • - New Magneto-Electric Machine, S. Alfred Varley, 142
  • - Nolet Engine, Douglas and Grant, 184
  • - Non-Radiating Steam Engine, Moy and Shill, 66
  • - Overloading of Steamers, W, Brodie, 314, 349
  • - Phosphorised Bronze, G. Montefiore Levi, C.E., 171
  • - Power of Brakes, George G. Andre. C.E., 202
  • - Pre-Patent Protection, E. K. Dutton, 82
  • - Pre-Patent Protection, A Patentee, 53
  • - Prevention of Sea Sickness, Lawrence Hargrave, 349
  • - Public Works in Turkey, J. Lewis Farley, 7
  • - Pumping by Windmills, B. B., 129
  • - Railway Expenditure, H. Howells, 185
  • - Recoil or Self-Acting Loader for Armstrong or Heavy Guns in Forts or Ships, John W. Mason, 233
  • - Reducing Fuel in Old Engines, James Sutcliffe, 184
  • - Reducing Fuel in Old Engines, W. W. S., 142
  • - Ruston and Proctor's Portable Engine, S. C. Harris, 7
  • - Safety Valves, X., 185
  • - Ships' Lines, J. Simeon Barlow, 334
  • - Ships' Lines, Edward Jackson, 313
  • - Signalling at Sea, W. H. Clapp, A.M.S.T.E., 96
  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR :--
  • - Social Engineering Considered as a Source of Profit, W. H. H., 315
  • - Steam Packed Pistons, M. Y. R., 250
  • - Steam Packed Pistons, Oswald Rose, 282
  • - Steam Packed Pistons, T. Simpson, 282
  • - Street Tramways, John Page, 334
  • - Testing Cranes, J. Fortescue Flannery, 219
  • - Tolhausen's Technological Dictionary, A. Tolhausen, Ph.D., 315
  • - Tram Plates at Woolwich Arsenal, W. M. Phipson, 53
  • - Ventilation of Coal Mines, John Newsland, F.C.S., 153, 250
  • - Ventilation of Mines, J. Hacking, 184, 282
  • - Wave Propulsion, J. M., 7
  • - What shall we do with Our Old Engines ? Coal Economisers, 22, 66
  • - What shall we do with Our Old Steam Engines ? Compound, 96
  • - What shall we do with Our Old Steam Engines ? J. B., 53
  • - What shall we do with Our Old Steam Engines? A. E. Taylor, 53
  • - What shall we do.with Our Old Steam Engines? T. G.. 153
  • - What shall we do with Our Old Steam Engines? Working Engineer, 153
  • Lifeboat, Mr. W. Petersen's Steam, 126
  • Lighthouses for Trinity Shoals and Timbalier, Gulf of Mexico,
  • Limestone Chalk in County Tyrone, Ireland, 398
  • Lisbon, Steam Tramways in, 18
  • Lisbon, Steam Tramways, Mr. Trevithick, 232, 233
  • LITERATURE :--
  • - Bovill Patent, The, W. W. Wynne, 379
  • - City of London Directory for 1873, W. H. and L Collingridge, 190
  • - Dictionnaire Technologique, andc., M. Louis Tolhausen, 304
  • - Elements of Mathematical Drawing, J. F. Heather, M.A., 190
  • - Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872, Professor Luigi Palmieri, 137
  • - Illustrated Guide and Directory of Manufactures of Great Britain and Ireland, S. Deacon and Co., 190
  • - Indian and Colonial Mercantile Directory for 1873, G. Street and Co., 229
  • - Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, 70
  • - Mineral Surveyor's Guide, William lantern, 138
  • - Modern Marine Engineering, N. P. Burgh, 165
  • - Natural Philosophy, Elementary Treatise on, A. Privat Deschanel, 138
  • - Peat as a Substitute for Coal, Ralph Richardson, 245
  • - Railway Map for England and Wales, Price Williams M.I.C.E., 165
  • - Society of Engineers, Transactions for 1870, E. and F. N. Spon, 246
  • - Statistical Report of the National Association of Iron Manufacturers for 1872, 229
  • - Strength of Materials and Structures, John Anderson, C.E., LL.D., F.R.S.E., 190, 304
  • - Water Supply of Bombay, Major Tulloch, 379
  • - Works in Iron Bridge and Roof Structures, Ewing Matheson, 165
  • Loader for Heavy Guns, 233
  • Locomotive, Details of Tank, Mr. W. Stroudley, London and Brighton Railway, 140, 186, 191
  • Locomotive, The Grasshopper, Baltimore Railway, 182
  • Locomotive, Herr E. Kessler's Passenger, Carl-Lud-wigsbahn, Vienna Exhibition, 350, 351, 355, 366, 368
  • Locomotives on Roads Bill, 255
  • Locomotives for Steep Gradients, 171, 184, 202, 250, 282, 334
  • London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, 255
  • London and County Bank, Half-yearly Report, 92
  • Louvet, M., Scaffolding used in Repairing the Pantheon, Paris, 144,146
  • Lundquist, Mr. Erick, Smelting Apparatus 383 Luxuries of Labour, 142
  • Lyster, C.E., Mr. G. F., Liverpool Docks, 117
  • Magneto-Electro Machine, 132, 142
  • Mallet, Mr.. Producing Oxygen, 64
  • Mallet, C.E.. F.R.S., Mr. Robert, On the Thickness Necessary for Conduit Pipes to enable them to Resist the Shock of Suddenly Arrested Water, 327
  • Markets, Metal, Oil, Timber, andc. (See last page of every number.)
  • Mason, Mr. J., Launch Engines, 233
  • Means of Reducing Consumption of Fuel by Old Steam Engines, 77, 91, 107, 142, 153. 184, 245
  • Mercadier, M., Electro-Diapason, 388
  • Mersey Tunnel Scheme, 382
  • Mexico, A Trip through, 132
  • Microgoniometer, The. 179
  • Micro-Spectroscope, Mr. E. J. Gayer, 332
  • Midland Railway, Appointment of Mr. W. Adams, 346, 368
  • Military Saddles, 250
  • Mill, Mr. R., Fuel Economiser, 183
  • Mine Ventilation, 250, 282
  • Mines, Ventilation of Coal, 153, 184
  • Mint, The Japanese, 282
  • Miscellanea, 3, 19, 35, 49, 63, 79, 97, 109, 129, 139, 157, 167, 181, 203, 215, 235, 268, 283, 297, 321, 361, 352, 369, 386, 401
  • Mixing Moulding Sand. Mr. Jules Hautchin, 332
  • Mortar and Concrete, Mr. Reid, C.E., at the Edinburgh and Leith Engineers Society, 316
  • Motion, or Velocity and Acceleration, 33
  • Moy and Shill, Messrs., Non-Radiating Steam Engine, 48, 54, 66, 112
  • Napier and Sons, Messrs. R., Sections of Cylindersand Details of Compound Marine Engine, 270-H.P., 383, 348
  • Naval Engineers, 405
  • Navy, The United States, 99
  • Neuberg Steel Works, Styria, 361, 370, 404
  • New Gas Company, Prospectus, 71
  • Newport Mills Industrial Partnerships, Annual Meeting, 142
  • Newsvendors' Benevolent and Provident Institution, 219
  • New Zealand, Progress in, 126
  • Nickel, The Supply of, 353
  • Nolet, M., Expansive Engine, 168, 172, 184
  • North fleet Relief Fund Exhibition, 239
  • Notes from Lancashire, 32, 45, 60, 75, 89, 105, 121, 135, 150, 163, 178, 195, 211, 228, 243, 259, 275, 291, 309, 325, 343, 359, 377, 394, 408
  • Notes and Memoranda, 3, 19, 35, 49, 63, 79, 97, 109, 129, 139, 159, 167, 181, 203, 215, 235, 251, 268, 283, 297, 321, 352, 361, 369, 386, 401
  • Notes from Scotland, 16, 32, 46, 60, 75, 90, 106, 121, 136, 149, 164, 178, 196, 211, 243, 260, 276, 292, 310, 326, 344, 359, 377, 394, 408
  • Notices to Correspondents, 10, 25, 41, 55, 69, 85, 99, 115, 131, 145, 158, 173, 189, 205, 221, 237, 253, 269, 285, 303, 319, 337, 353, 371, 387, 403
  • Obelisk of Alexandria, Mechanical Means of Removing, 67, 83, 96
  • OBITUARY
  • - Barrett, Mr. Alfred. 6
  • - Condres, Louis de, 86
  • - Greenwood. Mr. Thomas, 113
  • - Jones, Dr. H. Bence, 251
  • - Liebig, Baron Justus, 253
  • - Rankine Professor W. J. Macquorn, Notice in the Journal of the Franklin Institute, 282
  • - Thomson, Mr R. W., 156
  • - Tite, Sir William, 255
  • Olmstead, Mr. J., Magneto-Electric Brake North London Railway, 154
  • Opening of the International Exhibition, 229
  • Overloading of Steamers, Mr. J. W. Richardson at the Institution of Naval Architects, 281
  • Oxford Main Drainage, 142
  • Oxygen, Mr. Mallet's Method of Producing 64
  • Oyster, A Patent, 198
  • Palace, the Alexandra, 371
  • Pasteur, M. J. D., Submarine Lamp, 151
  • Patent International Congress, 185
  • Patent Law and the New Lord Chancellor, 38
  • Patent Law in Prussia, 261
  • Patent Law Reform, Proposed, 115
  • Payne, Messrs., Feed-water Heater, 183
  • Peat Condensing, Messrs. Clayton and Howlett, 86, 107, 111, 206
  • Peat Works, Mr. F. Healy, 206
  • Petersen, Mr. W., Steam Lifeboat, 126
  • Petherick and Rock, Messrs., Safety Valves, 380
  • Phosphorised Bronze for Cannon, 132
  • Piles, Protecting, 174
  • Piston, Steam Packet, 250, 282
  • Planing Machine, Duplex, Mr. A. Moore Thompson, 182
  • Plate Girders, On the Depths of 22
  • Port Patrick Cable, The, 7
  • Portugal, Steam Tramways in, 166
  • "Power Jumper," The, 125
  • Pre-Patent Protection, 42, 53, 82
  • Printing, Mr. S. Cropper's Platen, 65
  • Private Bills, 71, 132. 180, 207
  • Private Bills Deposited, 2
  • Private Bills, the Estimates, 26
  • Propellers, Fitting Screw, 382
  • Protection of Inventions at tho Vienna Exhibition, 23
  • Prussia, Patent Law in, 261
  • Public Works of the Second Empire, 100
  • Public Works in Turkey, 7
  • Puddler, Mr. Broomhall, 279
  • Pulp-making Machinery, Demand for, 113
  • Pump, Mr. Schmid's, 216
  • Raft, Mr. E. Farrell's, C.E., Life Saving, 282
  • Railroads, Wooden, 26
  • Railway Carriages and Wagons, 179--Table of Working Expenditure, Half-year, December 1871, 187
  • Railway, Egyptian, 123
  • Railway Matters, 3, 19, 35, 49, 63, 79, 97, 109, 129, 139, 157, 167, 181, 203, 215, 235, 251, 268, 283, 297, 321, 361, 352, 369, 386, 401
  • Railway Routes to India, 382, M. Lesseps' Project, 387
  • Railways in Central Asia, 348
  • Railways in China, 71
  • Railways, Indian, 368, 400
  • Railways, Narrow Gauge, 214
  • Railways in Victoria, 127
  • Railways in War, 301
  • Rankine, Professor, and the Highland and Agricultural Society, 52
  • Rankine C.E., LL.D., F.R.S., W. J. M., Remarks on Binary Vapour Engines, 395
  • Rankine, The Late Professor, On Waves in Liquids, 330
  • Regulating Marine Engines, Mr. Meriton, 207
  • Reid, C.E., Mr. R. C., On Mortar and Concrete, at the Edinburgh and Leith Engineers' Society, 316
  • Report, The Patent Gas, 42
  • Resistance of Woods to Torsional Strain, 310
  • Results of the Trials of Portable Engines at Cardiff, 231
  • Reynolds, M.A., Air. Osborne, Causes of the Racing of the Engines of Screw Steamers--Institution of Nava Architects, 295
  • Richardson, Air. J. W., On the Overloading of Steamers--Institution of Naval Architects, 281
  • Robertson, Air. J., Rolling Fluid Steel, 2, 4
  • Robey and Co., Messrs., 8-Horse Power Horizontal Engine. Vienna Exhibition, 298
  • Rochussen and Daelen, Messrs., Steel, 249
  • Rolling Fluid Steel, Air. J. Robertson, 2, 4
  • Rolling Stock, Improved Railway, 23
  • Routes to Vienna, 287
  • Ruahine and Liffey, Engines and Boilers, Messrs. Day and Summers, 234, 236
  • Runquist, Mr. R., Oscillating Governor, 265, 266
  • Russian Ministry of Marine, 296
  • Sacre, Air. C., Composite Carriage, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, 266, 267
  • Saddles, Military, 250
  • Safes, Mr. Elwell's, 398
  • Safety Valve Competition for £100, 247
  • St. Gothard Railway, Tho, 65, 94, 168
  • Sale of Wood Working Machinery, Burdett-road, Limehouse, 146
  • Samal and Berouson, MM., Bleaching, 71
  • Scaffolding used in Repairing the Paris Pantheon, M. Louvet, 144, 146
  • Schmid, Mr., Pumps, 216
  • Science in Japan, Progress of, 377
  • Sea Sickness, Prevention of, 349
  • Semmering, Over the, 338
  • Sewage, Disposal of, 319
  • Sewing Machine for Heavy Work, Wheeler, Wilson, and Co., 80
  • Shaw's Tuyere, for Smiths' Hearths, Messrs. Crowley and Co., Makers, 110
  • Sheet Iron on Railways, 380
  • Sheffield District, 16, 31, 46, 60, 76, 90, 106, 122, 135, 150, 164, 178, 196, 212, 228, 244, 259, 276, 292, 310, 326, 360. 378, 394, 408
  • Shipbuilders' Competition between British and Foreign, 353
  • Ship Canal, Proposed--India and Ceylon, 377
  • Shipping Trade, 151
  • Ships, Ironclad, 221
  • Ships' Lines, 313, 334
  • Ships, Wooden, 156
  • Shoeburyness, Experiments on Carriages and Rockets, 123
  • Sicilian Resources, 127
  • Siebe, Gorman, and Christy's, Ship Raising Steamer, 101
  • Siemens, Air. C. W., Steel Process, 185
  • Signalling Apparatus, as Fitted to the Royal Train, London and North-Western Railway, Mr. S. A. Varley, 395
  • Signalling on Railways--Block System, 368
  • Signalling at Sea, 96
  • Signalling, Submarine Friction, Dynamometers and Deep Sea Soundings, Sir W. Thomson, On, 174
  • Sigi, Herr G., 8-Wheeled Goods Engine, Southern Railway of Austria, 336
  • Sizes and Construction of the Portable Steam Engines tried at Cardiff. Messrs. Eastons and Anderson, 230
  • Smelting Apparatus. Air. Erick Lundquist, 383
  • SOCIETY, THE AGRICULTURAL :--
  • - List of Prizes, 349
  • Society, Amalgamated Engineers', 207
  • SOCIETY OF ARTS :--
  • - Gas Lighting by Electricity, Air. W. Lloyd Wise,, C.E., 142
  • Society for Buenos Ayres, The Scientific, 372
  • Society, Cail and Co., Paris, 6
  • SOCIETY, THE CHEMICAL, 185
  • - Action of Bromine on Alizarine, W. H. Perkin, F.R.S., 397
  • - Action of Hydrochloric Acid on Codeine, Dr. C. R. A. Wright, 156
  • - Action of Sodium on Aniline, Dr. H. G. Armstrong, 92
  • - Air Bath of Constant Temperature between 100 deg. and 200 deg. C2, H. Springel, 156
  • - Anthrapurpurine, Air. W. H. Perkin, 92
  • - Aurin, Air. R S. Dale, B.A., and Air. C. Schorlemmer, F.R.S., 128
  • - Communication from the Laboratory of the London Institution, Dr. H. G. Armstrong, 224
  • - Cymene from Different Sources Optically Considered, Dr. J. H. Gladstone, 397
  • - Cymenes from Various Sources, Dr. C. R. A. Wright, 224
  • - Decomposition of Tri-Calcic Phosphate by Water, Air. R. Warrington, 397
  • - Detection of Ammonia in the Atmosphere, Air. I. H. Snell, 128
  • - Determining with Great Exactness the Specific Gravity of Liquids, Dr. H. Sprengel. 224
  • - Dioxides of Calcium and Strontium, Sir J. Conway, Bart, M.A., 364
  • SOCIETY, THE CHEMICAL :--
  • - Estimating Nitric Acid, T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S.E., 156
  • - Ethyl Amyl, Mr. Harry Grimshaw, 67
  • - Heat Produced by Chemical Action, Dr. Debus, 254
  • - Hepbanes from Petroleum, Dr. C. Schorlemmer, F.R.S., 67
  • - Influence of Pressure on Fermentation. Part II., Influence of Reduced Pressure on Alcoholic Fermentation, Mr. Horace T. Brown, 397
  • - Iodine Nonochloride, Mr. J. B. Hannay, 364
  • - Isomerism, Dr. Armstrong, 311
  • - Isomerism in the Terpene Family of Hydrocarbons, Dr. C. R. A. Wright, 92
  • - Mercury Estimation and Mercury Salts, J. B. Hannay, 156
  • - Nature of the Black Deposit in the Copper Zinc Couple, Dr. Gladstone, and G. Tribe, F.C.S., 156
  • - Nature and Some Derivatives of Coal Tar Cresol, H. E. Armstrong and C. L. Field, 397
  • - New Class of Explosives, Dr. H. Sprengel, 281
  • - New Tellurium Mineral, with Notes on a Systematic Mineralogical Nomenclature, J. B. Hannay, 397
  • - Note on the Relation among the Atomic Weights, J. A. R. Newlands, 397
  • - Notes on Various Chemical Reactions, Mr. Davies, 67
  • - Oxidation and Decomposition Products of Morphine Derivatives, E. L. Mayer and C. R. A. Wright, 397
  • - Pyrogallate of Lead, and on Lead Salts, Mr. W. H. Deering, 281
  • - Reaction of the Acetates upon Lead Salts, Mr. F. Field, F.R.S., 156
  • - Researches on the Action of the Copper Zinc Couple on Organic Bodies, Dr. Gladstone and A. Tribe, 198
  • - Researches on the Action of the Copper Zinc Couple on Organic Bodies, Iodides of Amyl and Methyl, Dr. Gladstone, andc., and A. Tribe, 224
  • - Researches on the Action of the Copper Zinc Couple on Organic Bodies III. on Normal and Isopropyl Iodides, Dr. Gladstone and A. Tribe, 397
  • - Solidification of Nitrous Oxide, Mr. T. Wills, 128
  • - Steel Process, Dr. C. W. Siemens, F.R.S., 185
  • - Sulphur Bromide, Mr. J. B. Hannay, 364
  • - Triferrous Phosphide, Mr. R. Schenk, 364
  • - Vanadates of Thallium, Mr. Thomas Carnelly, 67
  • - Zirconia, Mr. J. B. Hannay, 281
  • SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, AMERICAN :--
  • - Experiments on the Resistance of Stones to Crushing, C. B. Richards, M.E., 92
  • - Pneumatic Foundations, Gen. W. Sovy Smith, 300
  • - Pneumatic Piles, Mr. R. Cartwright, C.E.. 301
  • - Rail Economy, C. P. Sandberg, C.E., 6, 382
  • - Record of Some Experiments Showing the Character and Position of Neutral Axes as Seen by Polarised Light, Louis Nickerson, C.E., 78
  • - Retaining Walls, Mr Casinni Constable, 166
  • - Rock Drilling, F. Collingwood, C.E., 92
  • - Screw Piles for Supporting a 24in. Water Main Across the Providence River, Mr. C. D. Ward, C.E., 301
  • - Shaw's Gunpowder Pile-driver, Samuel R. Probasco, C.E., 382
  • - Society, Civil and Mechanical Engineers', 368
  • - Various Kinds of Condensing Apparatus for Engines, Mr. E. Perrett, 108
  • - Visit to the Extension Works of the Great Eastern Railway, 18
  • Society, The Cornwall Polytechnic, 298
  • Society of East Belgium, The Agricultural, 124
  • SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS, 47, 397
  • - Charging and Drawing Gas Retorts, Mr. John Somerville, 362
  • - Continuous Railway Brakes, Mr. W. H. Fox, C.E., 142, 152
  • - Horse Railways and Steam Tramways, Mr. Henry Gore, 246
  • - Railway Train Intercommunication, Mr. S. A. Varley, 395
  • - Visit to the Albert Bridge, 315
  • Society of Engineers, Manchester, 96
  • SOCIETY, MANCHESTER SCIENTIFIC AND MECHANICAL 234, 250, 332
  • - Steam Jacket, its Advantages and Disadvantages--is it Truly Economical? Mr. A. Hildebrandt, 113
  • - Strength of Materials, Especially Considering the Effects of Sudden Fluctuations in the Shape of Structures, Professor Osborne Reynolds, 71
  • - Travelling Cranes, Mr. Theodore Grosse, 191
  • - Ventilation of Mines, Mr. J. Hecking, 138
  • SOCIETY, THE METEOROLOGICAL :--
  • - Land and Sea Breezes, Mr. J. K. Laughton, 348
  • - Land and Sea Breezes, Rev. L. W. Stow, 348
  • SOCIETY, THE ROYAL :--
  • - Action of Light on the Electrical Resistance of Silenium, Lieut. Sale, R.E., 335
  • - Air Battery, Dr. Gladstone and Mr. Tribe, 254
  • - Anatomy and Histology of Land Planarians of Ceylon, Mr. Moseley, 171
  • - Bacteria, Mr. H. Charlton Bastian, 171, 280
  • - Bakerian Lecture, Earl of Rosse, 254
  • - Condensation of a Mixture of Air and Steam upon Cold Surfaces, Mr. Osborne Reynolds, 280
  • - Curvature and Orthogonal Surfaces, Professor Cayley, 171
  • - Distribution of the Invertebrate in Relation to the Theory of Evolution, Dr. Macdonald, 254
  • - Durability and Preservation of Iron Ships, and on Riveted Joints, Sir William Fairbairn, 280
  • - Effect of Pressure on the Character of the Spectra of Gases, Messrs. Steam and Lee, 281
  • - Employment of Meteorological Statistics in Determining the Course for a Ship whose Sailing Qualities are Known, Mr. Francis Galton, 280
  • - Ethyl and Methyl Aniline, Mr. J. Spiller, 171
  • - Further Remarks on the Sense of Sight in Birds, Mr. R. J. Lee, 67
  • - Heat and Electricity, Mr. F. Guthrie, 171
  • - Leaf Arrangement, Dr. Herbert Airy, 171
  • - Magnetic Observations in the Britannia and Conway Tubular Iron Bridges, Sir George Biddell Airy, 67
  • - Magnetic Survey of Belgium, Rev. S. J. Perry, 171
  • - Motion of a Body About a Fixed Point, Mr. E. J. Routh, 254
  • - New Formula for a Microscopic Object Glass, Mr. J. H. Wenham, 83
  • - New Locality of Amblygonite, and on Montebrasite, M. des Cloiseaux, 171
  • - New Method of Viewing the Chromosphere, Messrs. J. N. Lockyer and G. M. Seabroke, 67
  • - Note on an Erroneous Extension of Jacobi's Theorem, Mr. J. Todhunter, 83
  • - Observations on the Temperature of the Arctic Sea near Spitzbergen, Captain J. C. Wells, R.N., 67
  • - Organisation of Certain Fossil Plants of the Coal Measures, Professor W. C. Williamson, 67
  • - Osteology of Hyopotamidae, Dr. W. Kowalevsky, 171
  • - Periodicity of Rainfall in Connection with the Sun Spot Periodicity, Mr. C. Meldrum, 335
  • - Researches in Spectrum Analysis in Connection with the Spectrum of the Sun, Mr. J. N. Lockyer, 335
  • - Structure of Striped Muscular Fibre, Mr. Schafer, 254
  • - Supersaturated Saline Solutions, Mr. C. Tomlinson, 171
  • - Synthesis of Marsh Gas and Formic Acid, and on the Electric Decomposition of Carbonic Oxide, Sir B. C. Brodie, 254
  • - Temperature at which Bacteria, andc., and their Supposed Germs are Killed when Immersed in Fluid, or Exposed to Heat in a Moist State, Dr. Bastian, 254
  • - Union of Ammonia Nitrate with Ammonia, Dr. E. Divers, 67
  • - Vapour Density of Potassium, Mr. J. Dewar and Mr. W. Dittmar, 171
  • - Visible Direction, Dr. James Jago, 171
  • - Wide Slit Method of Viewing Solar Prominences, Mr. Higgins, 98
  • SOCIETY, THE ROYAL MICROSCOPIC :--
  • - Crystallisation of Metals by Electricity under the Microscope, Mr. Philip Braham, 216
  • SOCIETY OF TELEGRAPH ENGINEERS. 130, 334
  • - Address of the President, Mr. Frank Ives Scudamore, 33
  • - Block System of Working on Railways, Captain Mallock, 296
  • - Block System of Working on Railways, Mr. W. H. Preece, 296
  • - Common Source of Error in Measurement of Currents of Short Duration, when Using Galvanometers with Shunts, Mr. Latimer Clark, 83
  • - Direct Method of Determining Battery Resistances, Mr. Von Chauvin, 31
  • - Earth Currents, Mr. Stout, 201
  • - Earth Currents, Mr. G. K. Winter, 201
  • - Experiences in India. Mr. Ayrton, 254
  • - ImprovedTom of Joule's Tangent Galvanometer, Sir W. Thomson, 34
  • - Iron Telegraph Poles, Mr. W. Siemens, 143
  • - Lightning and Lightning Conductors, Mr. Graves, 34
  • - Measurement of Electrostatic Capacity, Sir W. Thomson, 83
  • - Riband Telegraph Poles, Mr. Robert Bristow Lee, 143
  • - Telegraph Poles, Lieut. Jekyll. R.E., 143
  • - Telegraph Poles, Major Webber, 143
  • - Testing Lengths of Highly Insulated Wire, Professor Fleeming Jenkin, F.R.S., 254
  • Somerset Dock at Malta, 56
  • South Cleveland Ironworks, Limited, 142
  • South-Eastern Railway, New Suburban Station, New Cross, 377
  • South Kensington Museum, 7, 23, 53, 76, 80, 110, 128, 143, 207, 228, 238, 247, 276, 282, 296, 312, 330, 346, 365, 384, 400
  • Sparrow, Mr. J. W., Collecting Blast Furnace Waste Gases, 37
  • Special Rules at the Lancashire Collieries, 377
  • Spindle Step, Mr. Henry, 398
  • Spontaneous Ignition of Oiled Cotton or Silk Waste, 174
  • Steam to Australia, 165
  • Steamers, Channel, 22
  • Steamers, Overloading of, 281, 314, 349
  • Steamers to South America, N.w Line of, 372
  • Steel, Prize for, Council of the Society of Arts, 92
  • Steel Process, Dr. C. W. Siemens, F.R.S., 185
  • Steel, Producing Direct from the Ore, Messrs. Rochussen and Daelen, 249
  • Steel ? What is, 364, 393
  • Steel Works in Styria, The Neuberg, 361, 370, 404
  • Steering Screw, Captain Bremner, 110
  • Stone Breaker and Traction Engine for the Ceylon Railway, Mr. Blakeís, 110
  • Stone and Ore Crushing Machine, Mr. J. C. Cole's, 155
  • Streets, The Engineer in the, 285
  • Strike, The End of the, 173
  • Strike in South Wales, 41, 55
  • Stroudley, Mr. W., Six-Coupled Tank Engine, London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, 125. (See also Supplement.)
  • Stroudley, Mr. W., Details of Tank Locomotive, London and Brighton Railway, 140, 186, 191
  • Stroudley, Mr. W., Tank Engine for Metropolitan Traffic, South London Railway, 34, 40
  • Stuffing Boxes, Mr. Watteeu's, Metallic, 216
  • Submarine Mine Experiments, Stokes Bay, 263, 298
  • Sub-Wealden Exploration, 125
  • Suckling, Mr. N. F., Sectional Steam Boiler, 127
  • Suez, Construction of a New Port at, 400
  • Swedish Iron Rolling Stock and Implement Works, 241
  • Swedish Pig Iron, 191
  • System, The Contract, 372
  • Tay Bridge, The, 197, 200, 204, 209, 220
  • Taylor, Mr. S., Waterloo Flour Mills, 21
  • Tees, The River, 303
  • Telegraphy, Practical Papers on, 339
  • Tensile Strength of American and English Iron and Steel, 138
  • Thickness Necessary to be Given to Conduit Pipes to Enable their Walls to Resist the Shock of the Moving Liquid Column when Suddenly Arrested, Mr. Robt. Mallet, C.E., F.R.S., 327
  • Thompson, Mr. A. Moore, Duplex Planing Machine, 182
  • Thomson, Sir W., On Submarine Signalling, Friction Dynamometers and Deep Sea Soundings, 174
  • Thwaites, C.E., Mr. C., Appointment to the Office of City Engineer and Surveyor for Norwich, 143
  • Time at the Antipodes, 108
  • Tires, Iron and Steel, 403
  • Torpedo, Captain Ericsson, 21
  • Torpedo Launch, Messrs. Yarrow and Hedley's, Steam, 51
  • Torpedoes in Naval Actions, Offensive Use of, 159
  • Tracing Paper, 166
  • Trade in Sheffield, 380
  • Trades Unions and Legislation, 55
  • Training, Professional, 387
  • Trains, Mr. E. Gilbert's Electrical Communication for, 326
  • Tramways of Bahia, Central, 94
  • Tramways in Lisbon, Steam, IS
  • Tramways at Lisbon, Mr. C. F. Trevithick, 232, 233
  • Tramways in Portugal, 166
  • Tramways, Street, 334
  • Tramways, Street, Mr. H. Gore, at the Society of Engineers, 248
  • Trial of Breech-loading Arms at the Springfield Armoury, 2
  • Tunnel, Mont Cenis, 174
  • Turf Fuel in Holland, Production of, 400
  • Turret of H.M.S. Hotspur, Fixed, 37
  • Tuyere for Smiths' Hearths, Mrs. Shaw, Messrs, Crowley and Co., Makers, 110
  • Type, Composing and Distributing Machine, M. Kastenbein, 262, 263
  • Underground Railways in America, 346
  • United States Manufacturing Company, Expanding Tap for Couplings, 155
  • Utilising Old Iron, 382
  • Valve, Messrs. J. Chandler and Co.'s Compound Lever Ball, 21
  • Valve, Messrs. Coxhead and Miller's Regulator, 127, 153
  • Valve, Mr. W. Dawson's Safety, 155
  • Valves, Corliss, 202
  • Valves, Messrs. Petherick and Rock's Safety, 380
  • Valve, Safety, 185
  • Varley, Mr. S. A., Signalling Apparatus, as fitted to the Royal Train, London and North-Western Railway, 395
  • Varnish for Labels, 382
  • Viaduct on the Whitby, Redcar, and Middlesbrough Railway, 151, 158
  • VIENNA EXHIBITION, 42, 238, 269, 270, 286, 293, 311, 345
  • - Brake, Messrs. Eastons and Anderson's 20-horse power Friction, 373
  • - Building, Cross Section of Nave and Transepts, 17, 26
  • - Engine, Herr G. Lessner's, 25-horse power Condensing Expansive, 399, 402, 405
  • - Engine, Pumping, Erste Brunner Maschinen Fabriks Gesselschaft, 381, 385
  • - Engine, Messrs. Robey and Co.'s, 8 horse-power Horizontal, 289
  • - Engines, 293
  • - Gun, Russian 40-ton, Abouchoff Steel Works 398
  • - Juries, 156, 182
  • - Locomotive. Passenger, for the Carl Ludwigsbahn, Herr E. Kessler. 350, 351, 355, 366, 368
  • - Map of Routes, 287
  • - Protection of Inventions, 23
  • - Rotunda of the Building, 287
  • Vienna Exhibition and the United States, 34
  • Wales and the Adjoining Counties, 16, 32, 46, 60, 76, 90, 106, 122, 136, 150, 164, 178, 196, 212, 228, 244, 260, 276, 292, 310, 326, 344, 360, 378, 394, 408
  • Walser. Mr. F., Fire Engine, 317, 318
  • War, The Ashantee, 320
  • Water Power on the Shannon at Killaloe, 299
  • Water Power in Relief of Steam, 189
  • Water Supply, Metropolitan, 199
  • Watteeu, Mr., Metallic Stuffing Boxes, 216
  • Wave Propulsion, 7
  • Waves in Liquids, Late Professor Rankine, 330
  • Weight of Railway Iron per Mile, 382
  • Westinghouse Brake on the Metropolitan District Railway, 100, 113
  • Wheeler and Wilson Company's Sewing Machine for Heavy Work, 80
  • Whitby and Middlesbrough Railway, Mr. Dixon's Piers, 151
  • Whitmore and Binyon's, Messrs., Longitudinal Section of Waterloo Flour Mills, 34, 36, 95, 98--Transverse Section, 50
  • Wigan Colliery Explosion, 365
  • Wilson, Messrs., 35-ton Double Acting Steam Hammer at Woolwich Arsenal, 250, 252
  • Windmills, Pumping by, 128
  • Wood-Working Machinery, Burdett-road, Limehouse, Sale of, 146
  • Woolwich Arsenal, Tram Plates at, 53
  • Woolwich Infant, Interior of the late, 81
  • Work Done. Accumulated Work, or Kinetic Energy, and Pis Viva, 61
  • Wright's Gas Producer, 182
  • Yarrow and Hedley's, Messrs., Steam Torpedo Launch 51
  • Yates, Mr., Safety Lamp, 183

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